MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE (Gary Goddard, 1987)

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Hoping TOY MASTERS will finally get released, especially before this one.

[Jox]

Hoping TOY MASTERS will finally get released, especially before this one.

Now the movie is finally completed, it seems they haven't figured it all out regarding distribution, especially internationally according to a recent interview.

Here's the Egyptian screening 45mins Q&A moderated by our own Viendammage!

[Jox]

How Did This Get Made: Masters of the Universe (An Oral History)
by Blake Harris
http://www.slashfilm.com/masters-of-the ... l-history/

Unseen set pics courtesy of Gary Goddard:

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Wow. Feel like there's sudden resurgence in not just this film, but of the MOTU property lately... Mainly within the past month.

Here's the podcast from HOW DID THIS GET MADE that is a companion piece of sorts to the SlashFilm article. Actually pretty funny:

http://www.earwolf.com/episode/masters-of-the-universe/

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I love How Did This Get Made!

Their episodes on Arnold's Junior and Hercules in New York are hilarious.

I'll have to listen to this one after I re-watch the movie, I noticed it popped up on Netflix recently.

[Jox]

Wow. Feel like there's sudden resurgence in not just this film, but of the MOTU property lately... Mainly within the past month.

The MOTU brand has had quite a resurgence in the past 10 years, the community is quite big.

Here's the podcast from HOW DID THIS GET MADE that is a companion piece of sorts to the SlashFilm article. Actually pretty funny:

http://www.earwolf.com/episode/masters-of-the-universe/

I omitted to post it since I listened some of it and was quite annoyed by the "let's have a beer" tone of it (not mentioning the lack of intel and gratuitous trashtalk). It's like the opposite of the awesomely in-depth article above.

[viendammage]

This from your own personal collection Jox?

That's actually mine! Also had the theatrical poster featuring Dolph, Robert and Courtney that I got at a store in Whittier where they shot the big street and music store sequences. It was a great night, we had a crowd just under 400 and the lobby decked out with 15' statue, display cases, cut outs and more.
Have already been asked if I'd do it again next year but with Power-Con coming back, I don't think there's enough interest to warrant two He-Man events in L.A. in one year. I did mess up as I meant to ask Anthony De Longis about training with Dolph and working on the fight scenes as Chelsea Field didn't have any Dolph stories to share while Gary mentioned they strapped him onto a truck for the Air Centurion scene...

[Jox]

I did mess up as I meant to ask Anthony De Longis about training with Dolph

He talks about it in the above piece from Slashfilm

[Jox]

After landing on Netflix, the full movie is available (legally) to US residents on Paramount Vault's Youtube channel along with 200 other movies
http://www.slashfilm.com/paramount-vault/
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-enter ... 85716.html



(but who would want to watch that on YT?!)

[Jox]

Appology to Dolph from production designer William Stout
http://www.williamstout.com/news/journal/?p=4881

A Public Apology

I just watched Electric Boogaloo. It’s a terrific documentary on Cannon Films, fascinating and very funny. I was totally up for this doc, as I made two movies for Cannon: Invaders From Mars and Masters of the Universe. I also heard lots of stories about other Cannon film projects.

I was interviewed for the documentary and appear in the film.

Unfortunately, I repeated a story I was told about when Sylvester Stallone visited our set and made a disparaging remark regarding Dolph Lundgren‘s acting abilities.

It was not my story to repeat. If it needed to be told at all (and it didn’t), it should have been told either by Stallone or the person to whom he made the comment (the guy who told me the story).

I felt deeply ashamed hearing that snark come out of my mouth. My deepest apologies, Mr. Lundgren.

This entry was posted on Friday, October 9th, 2015

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What a classy thing to do. Not many in the Hollywood sector would show this kind of class... I only wish Goddard would provide some kind of apology. He never has been too kind to Dolph in his reminisces of making the MOTU film, never truly acknowledging him in his commentary for the film and making it clear that he was saddled with him from the get go. Only recently in the SlashFilm article did he finally have remarks to say about D that were somewhat kind. Even still, he praises the other actors more than the main star.

[Jox]

I only wish Goddard would provide some kind of apology. He never has been too kind to Dolph in his reminisces of making the MOTU film, never truly acknowledging him in his commentary for the film and making it clear that he was saddled with him from the get go.

I think that's only one side of the coin that's coming across, and in his DVD commentary, he seemed to have too many topics to talk about and chose to talk more about the general making of the film. And rather that than being fake and all praise if that's not the case. But I think he just tries to be honest (which I much prefer than a director who would repeat himself saying "he was great", "he was fantastic" in a fake way just because he thinks that's what people want to hear but he doesn't actually think so). In my two hours interview with him in 2011, he's been more than kind and "praiseful" to Dolph and his work, but he was also fair to mention what worked and what didn't (and explaining the reasons or factors why it didn't), and that's not necessarily being critical to Lundgren personally, there's no hard feelings.

Aside from how great we think Dolph is in the role, we can also acknowledge how green he was as an actor back then, and how that would be challenging for any director who'd probably rather enjoy directing a film and stage heavy weight such as Frank Langella (not mentioning the role is so much more layered).

Even still, he praises the other actors more than the main star.

Maybe he has more things to say because he chose the other actors (apart from Langella? have to check, my memory is failing me), and like he said they were kind of like a theater or circus troupe, whereas I think Dolph was more on his own and either training/bulking up or working with his consequent entourage (two acting/dialect coaches, one "creative advisor" and a trainer) and therefore didn't mingle as much with the troupe might also explain the fact people don't have that much to say about him, he was there and did his work, "trying to live up to the He-Man image" as he would say...

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Were most of Dolph's lines dubbed by him later on through ADR? On subsequent viewings his dialogue is quite understandable, but also seems louder at times than the other actors. Any idea on how much of his dialogue was dubbed by him later on? And if so, was any of his original dialect present in the film (I'm thinking the "I've been looking for you!" line is an original)?

[Jox]

Are you asking about ADR or dubbing by another actor?

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Did Dolph ADR his own lines in post???