‘Voltron: The End’ A Live Action Voltron Short-Film
Voltron: The Endis the realization of a childhood dream – a live actionVoltronmovie. It’s also an evil, downbeat tease in the best possible way. Fans of the property – which centers on a massive robot composed of five individual mechanical lions – have been given the run around for years.Scripts havebeen leaked,concept art revealedand bidding warsreportedly wagedbut even with the success of robot fighting movies likeTransformersandReal Steel, we’re still not close to a live-actionVoltronmovie. It seems like a no-brainer.
Maybe this will be the push Hollywood needs.Voltron: The Endwas directed byAlex Albrecht, best known for his work withDiggnationand the popularTotally Rad Showvideo podcast. He now joins his co-host of that show – Dan Trachtenberg – in making an awesome short film froma geek property beggingfor a blockbuster adaptation.
WatchingVoltron: The Endleaves so many unanswered questions, maybe the people who hold the movie rights will make the film just to get them answered. Check it out after the jump.
Here’sVoltron: The End.
The bare bones description of the film is as follows:
When a man regains consciousness in a Voltron battle lion after an “accident” he has to decide does he live a few more minutes or try to tell the world what happened… the end is only the beginning.
Besides all the story lines and questions this film creates, as a fan ofVoltron, I love that Albrecht decided to go with the classic Voltron design for the big reveal instead of the busy, Michael Bay-style design that wasfloating around last yearas a possible concept for a film. Plus there’s no irony here. No winks to geek culture. It’s just presented like a real world men pilot a massive fighting robot that defends the galaxy. And that robot has been defeated.
I want to see this movie and, if we don’t, I’m glad Albrecht at least made this. Voltron fans now have something to latch onto and get behind.
