Newcomer Daniel Quinn-Toye, an actor with nary a film credit to his name, has nabbed the starring role in
Voltron, Amazon MGM’s big-budget live-action feature based on the mecha anime.
Rawson Marshall Thurber, the filmmaker behind the Netflix hit
Red Notice, is directing the adaptation, which will shoot this fall in Australia.
Producing are Todd Lieberman via Hidden Pictures, World Events Productions’ Bob Koplar, Thurber and Hobie Films’ David Hoberman.
Voltron is based on the Japanese sci-fi series
Beast King GoLion and
Kikou Kantai Dairugger XV. World Events edited and dubbed the series as a syndicated show, naming it
Voltron: Defender of the Universe, which ran in the mid-1980s. The premise centered on five young pilots in a battalion named the Robot Lions, which are vehicles that join together to form a mega-robot known as Voltron.