<P> The best New Gods movie, IMHO, is Masters of the Universe . I even corresponded with the director, who told me this was his intent, and that he had tried to get (Jack) Kirby to do the production designs, but the studio nixed it . </P> <P> Check it out . It requires some bending and an occasional sex change (Metron becomes an ugly dwarf, The Highfather becomes the Sorceress), but it's an amazingly close analog, otherwise . And Frank Langella's Skeletor is a dandy Darkseid! </P> <P> Director Gary Goddard clarified this in a letter appearing in John Byrne's Next Men #26, in which he stated: </P> <P> As the director of Masters of the Universe, it was a pleasure to see that someone got it . Your comparison of the film to Kirby's New Gods was not far off . In fact, the storyline was greatly inspired by the classic Fantastic Four / Doctor Doom epics, The New Gods and a bit of Thor thrown in here and there . I intended the film to be a "motion picture comic book," though it was a tough proposition to sell to the studio at the time .' Comics are just for kids,' they thought . They would not allow me to hire Jack Kirby who I desperately wanted to be the conceptual artist for the picture...</P>

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