Henry Cavill has signed onto a new heroic lead. Not as the famed Man Of Steel, but as the lead for Amazon MGM Studios' 'Voltron.' Based on the Japanese adapted 1980s series 'Voltron: Defender of the Universe,' the new film is sure to bring the mechanized magic to new audiences.
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00:00Henry Cavill is set to star in the new Voltron movie.
00:03The Superman actor has come aboard to top-line Amazon MGM Studios' live-action feature based
00:12on the mecha anime.
00:13The actor joins newcomer Daniel Quintoy in leading the film.
00:17The movie is based on the animated sci-fi series Voltron Defender of the Universe, which
00:21was an adaptation of multiple Japanese anime television shows and ran in the mid-1980s.
00:27The premise centered on five young pilots in a battalion named the Robot Lions, which
00:31are vehicles that join together to form a mega-robot known as Voltron.
00:36As for Cavill, the star appeared in two action-thrillers this year, Argyle and The Ministry of Ungentlemanly
00:42Warfare.
00:43He also had an audience-cheering cameo in this summer's Deadpool and Wolverine.
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