Finally, He-Man and Skeletor could really do battle, and one - or both! - could get stabbed. “He’d taken some of the great stuff that Frank Miller had done with ‘Daredevil’ and found a way to honor that but then build on it,” David said.ĭavid and Biaselli wanted Smith to do the same with “He-Man”: Take the show from the 1980s and continue that story with those characters, only now for an adult audience.
Separate from his feature film work, Smith had authored comic book runs of Marvel’s “Daredevil” and DC’s “Green Arrow” in the late 1990s and early 2000s that David greatly admired for their fealty to the subject matter, with none of Smith’s signature dick and fart jokes. “Not to even reimagine: Let’s just do a direct continuation of the classic ’80s era.” And the company was developing a live-action feature film adaptation that would also bring He-Man’s world of Eternia into a 21st century cinematic context.īut David and Netflix’s director of original series Ted Biaselli had hit upon a third approach to the property: A show that would be “for those adult fans who grew up loving ‘He-Man,'” David said.
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Mattel was already working with Netflix on a CG-animated “He-Man” series that would reboot and update the property for a new generation of children. But it was the ’80s, so you watched everything that was on.”ĭavid, however, had a specific pitch for Smith. “They have one of the baddest-ass villains in history, Skeletor, visually incredible, and all they did was somersault and not really fight. “I almost hate-watched it, because I was like, this show’s for babies,” he said. He was a young teenager during “He-Man’s” run from 1983 to 1985, and he wasn’t exactly a die-hard fan. “I never would have put that together,” he said. Anyone familiar with Smith’s sui generis oeuvre of profane indies like “Clerks,” “Chasing Amy” and “Dogma” might be surprised that Mattel would think of Smith as the right creative shepherd for an earnest swords-and-sorcery property about a hulking Adonis in a furry speedo and chest-plate.
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