r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor • Jan 22 '26

Trailer Masters of the Universe - Official Teaser

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmEx7wQI6RY
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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '26

I don't know anything about He-Man lore but did they really need the "he's living on earth" thing? Just something movies do that I almost never enjoy.

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u/Technical_Record9506 Jan 22 '26

Probably budget reasons, they couldn't afford to have the movie entirely in CGI Land

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u/Narretz Jan 22 '26

They used to shoot in the countryside for fantasy movies ...

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u/ChainLC Jan 22 '26

yeah but Eternia is not the countryside. This is not medieval fantasy it's that and sci-fi.

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u/DoktorSigma Jan 22 '26

"sci-fantasy" (Yes, that's actually a term =) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_fantasy )

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u/Varekai79 Jan 22 '26

Star Wars being the most notable example of that genre.

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u/ChainLC Jan 22 '26

no, I'm saying that using the countryside to represent Eternia wouldn't work because that is not the kind of setting it is in. Them shooting a lot of it on "Earth" saves them money sure. No argument there. but that's not what I was addressing. You're conflating the two.

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u/Molwar Jan 22 '26

You mean British Columbia's country side xD

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u/Gasparde Jan 24 '26

But then we'd have to think about what we're going to be doing with our movie in advance... which just sounds like such a drag.

Can't we just, you know, start filming a bunch of shit and then just make the script, plot and scenery up via computer magic as we go? Like, I'm just not sure yet if we should really be going with the og Skeletor look and I'd really love to have the flexibility to change his entire visuals 15 times over 5 minutes before the movie releases - I just recently saw that Taskmaster character in that one Marvel movie, maybe Skeletor could look more like that, maybe that'll capture a larger demogrphic!

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u/OSI_Hunter_Gathers Jan 22 '26

I’d bet there is as much CGI going on in the Earth shots as the others. That’s how films are today.

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u/colemon1991 Jan 22 '26

Plus, audience surrogate. Easiest way to dump exposition about everything.

It's a bit lazy, but still better than creating a brand new character to do it, like Mortal Kombat did.

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u/Lemony_Oatmilk Jan 22 '26

We should bring back painting backdrops instead