<P> For many years now, fan - sites such as He-Man.org, Planet Eternia, He - Man World and Wiki Grayskull, podcasts such as Masters Cast and the annual Power - Con convention, have also all served and promoted the Masters of the Universe brand . </P> <P> A Masters of the Universe comic book series was relaunched by DC Comics in 2012, first appearing as a series of digital comics . This was quickly followed by a six issue mini-series and all new revised origin issues for He - Man, Skeletor and Hordak . After a crossover mini-series with superheroes from the DC Comics universe in 2013, an ongoing series ran for 19 issues through 2014, before being replaced by the' He - Man The Eternity War' 15 issue series in 2015 / 2016 . This introduced a new back - story for He - man's sister She - ra (as Despara), Skeletor (as the half - Garn son of King Miro), Hordak, and the Snakemen; moving the storyline further along, with a new Horde invasion of Eternia and He - Man taking the Eternian throne, amongst other new developments . The current DC Masters of the Universe property is a crossover series with another heroic 1980's action figure line, ThunderCats . </P> <P> Since 2007 a reboot of Masters of the Universe has been in the works but has gone through development hell with various studios, directors and writers connected to the project . Variety reported in 2007 that Grayskull: Masters of the Universe would be produced by Joel Silver, and written by Justin Marks, and employing visual special effects to a large degree, as was done with the 2007 war film 300 With that deal to reboot the film going nowhere, Warner Bros. announced that John Stevenson, director of Kung Fu Panda, was slated to direct the upcoming feature . On 12 May 2009, it was announced that the scripting duties had been handed to newcomer Evan Daugherty, with John Stevenson still attached to direct . In September 2009, Sony took over the rights from Warner Bros. to produce the Masters of the Universe live - action film after Mattel and Silver couldn't agree on creative direction for the film . Sony and Escape Artists' Todd Black, Jason Blumenthal and Steve Tisch were now developing the project from scratch for Columbia . In April 2010, Sony hired screenwriters Mike Finch and Alex Litvak to draft a new script . Deadline reported that Jon M. Chu was in talks to direct the film . Original He - Man actor Dolph Lundgren did an interview with IGN about possibly appearing in the film as King Randor . On October 12, 2012, Richard Wenk was hired to rewrite the script for the film . On March 28, 2013, Chu said that the film was still early in its development and that it would not be campy, but rather a dramatic origin story . On October 7, 2013, The Hollywood Reporter reported that Terry Rossio would write the film; Todd Black, Jason Blumenthal and Steve Tisch were assigned to produce it . The film would be set on Eternia . The site also reported that Chu would not direct the film . </P> <P> On February 26, 2014, it was reported that directors Jeff Wadlow, Mike Cahill, Harald Zwart, and Chris McKay were on the short list to direct the film . On April 9, 2014, Schmoes Know reported that Wadlow would direct the film, but The Hollywood Reporter announced that he was merely rewriting the script . Columbia Pictures Senior Vice President DeVon Franklin tweeted that Jeff Wadlow had completed the script . Franklin later tweeted a photo on his Twitter page of Battle Cat . On August 19, 2015, Variety reported that Christopher Yost would rewrite the script . Mike O'Hearn announced on his Instagram account that he was in training to star as He - Man . However, he then quashed the rumor, saying he only wanted to do the part and was not cast for the live - action movie . </P>

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