He-Man has sheathed his magic sword, reigned in Battle Cat and stomped back to Eternia, having failed to return to live-action big-screen fruition with Warner Bros. and Joel Silver's Silver Pictures.
Variety reports that toy manufacturers and burgeoning movie moguls Mattel failed to see eye to eye over the project and "reached a mutual decision to let the option lapse". It's expected that the film will now be set up elsewhere, and that Kung-Fu Panda director John Stevenson will stay with it. Warners can console themselves that they still have Hot Wheels to play with.
He-Man's last big screen outing was the 1987 Masters of the Universe, with Dolph Lundgren in the furry pants and Frank Langella as Skeletor (only slightly less dastardly than Richard Nixon). There were plans for a sequel directed by Albert Pyun, but they collapsed, and the project morphed, somehow, into Cyborg, starring Jean-Claude Van Damme.
Mattel also have Max Steel in development at Paramount, and 1960s astronaut figure Major Matt Mason underway at Universal, apparently as a vehicle for Tom Hanks. Variety also mention a deal at Universal for "a live-action musical to be based on a new toy line that aspires to add a fresh twist to monster lore".
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