Henry Cavill's Live-Action Voltron Movie Skips Theaters for Prime Video Release

Don’t expect to spot the Henry Cavill-led Voltron movie successful cinemas erstwhile it’s yet released successful 2027. IGN has confirmed that the live-action movie based connected the animated franchise volition premiere exclusively connected Prime Video.

Movieweb and DiscussingFilm precocious reported that the Voltron movie would skip a theatrical merchandise successful favour of streaming. A source, however, tells IGN that was ever the program and that Amazon greenlit the movie with the volition of it being a streaming exclusive.

Voltron was made by Amazon MGM Studios, which besides releases films theatrically, astir precocious The Sheep Detectives and Crime 101. Amazon MGM volition besides merchandise James Bond 26 theatrically.

Red Notice and Skyscraper’s Rawson Marshall Thurber directs Voltron from a publication helium wrote with Ellen Shanman.

The archetypal series, Voltron: Defender of the Universe, ran from 1984–1985. Later bid included Voltron: The Third Dimension (1998–2000), Voltron Force (2011–2012), and Voltron: Legendary Defender (2016–2018).

The amusement followed a squad of abstraction explorers who aviator smaller robots that harvester into 1 elephantine ace robot (aka Voltron). Thurber has antecedently stated successful a video connection to fans that his movie aims to “stay existent to the bosom and the tone of Voltron. In this film, we're going to beryllium introducing an wholly caller procreation of pilots. We've reimagined Voltron for the live-action world, but we're going to enactment existent to...those iconic elements that you love, that I love. And I'm truthful excited to stock it with you.”

Thurber is besides a shaper connected the movie on with Todd Lieberman via Hidden Pictures, Bob Koplar, and Hobie Films’ David Hoberman.

In summation to Henry Cavill, the live-action Voltron movie besides stars Sterling K. Brown, Daniel Quinn-Toye, Rita Ora, John Kim, Alba Baptista, Samson Kayo, and Tharanya Tharan.