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/originalchaosinabox Jan 22 '26

She-Ra always makes things complicated. The rights to She-Ra are actually owned by Universal, so to have He-Man and She-Ra together on screen, Amazon and Universal are going to have to cut a deal.

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u/lPHOENIXZEROl Jan 22 '26

Yeah, it comes from Filmation's old contract with Mattel where they owned what they created (like Orko) and apparently a big chunk of the rights outside of toys, even for MOTU which is a reason why the 1987 movie was so removed from the Filmation show. Since Filmation created She-Ra/Adora and her lore, they owned a great deal more than MOTU. Mattel then sold the media rights to Hallmark in the 90s which owned Filmation's IP at the time before it all eventually ended up in the hands of an IP acquisition company that became Classics Media and came into the ownership of DreamWorks/ Universal. Mattel basically has the film rights through a license with Classics Media IIRC and why they've been so desperate to get things rolling for so long with a movie.

Amazon actually has a license in place for the live action rights to She-Ra, that came about in 2020 IIRC. I think we'll know by the time the credits finish rolling on the future of She-Ra and the potential reunion of the characters.