While a NEW GODS movie based on Jack Kirby's comic has just been announced, here's a article reminding that the 1987 MOTU film was intended as a tribute to this FOURTH WORLD comic series (Kirby was even acknowledged in the credits but the producers had that removed). According to this article, Kirby himself would have commented in the "Comic Shop News" magazine that MOTU the best NEW GODS film...
How Masters of the Universe Was Almost Like a New Gods Film…in 1987
https://www.cbr.com/new-gods-masters-of ... k-kirby/2/