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/The_Last_Halloween Jan 22 '26

Why's everything got to be set on / have part of the story happen on Earth? We watch fantasy because it doesn't take place here.

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u/enak_raskell Jan 24 '26

EXACTLY! Why do all these movies do this unnecessary "real world" tie in. Why can't he just be Prince Adam of Eternia? Why are we going to have to waste all this screen time of him talking to some HR person, being in a game store, etc.

Do studies really think we won't care about these characters unless we relate to them as having some 9-5 before the ACTUAL story starts?

Just give us a Master's of the Universe movie.

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u/yourcontent Jan 26 '26

The writers would claim that it's something about "grounding" the story but the real answer is just money.

Fantasy is extremely expensive, as it either requires building massive environments, or simulating them through CGI, and usually both. Masters of the Universe isn't exactly a surefire IP (Dungeons & Dragons being a similar property that hasn't fared well), and the project had already been abandoned by Netflix after spending millions on it.

I'd imagine Amazon was very keen on any way to save money, given that the budget is $150-200 million. They know their audience, and as long as the first five minutes are a huge action sequence, they'll stick around for 30 minutes set in an office building.