Ready for your first Masters of the Universe: Revelation trailer? It just arrived yesterday as part of Netflix’s Geeked Week, a week-long string of announcements and trailers to showcase the latest and greatest in the streaming platform’s offerings. And besides the upcoming Witcher season, Masters of the Universe: Revelation might be one of the best things you can watch on Netflix.
The show comes courtesy of Kevin Smith, who worked with Netflix to create a sequel to the original 1980s cartoon, He-Man and the Masters of the Universe. The show takes place immediately following the final battle between He-Man and Skeletor, which evidently turns out to just be one of many final battles. It’ll also tell the story of Teela, a former guard captain at Castle Grayskull who must seek out the lost Sword of Power to prevent the end of the universe.
The trailer is basically all action scenes set to the hook of Bonnie Tyler’s “I Need A Hero,” which is absolutely the most appropriate song for this show. Smith called it “easily in the top five of my favorite, most satisfying projects,” in an interview with EW.
“When I die, they’ll be like, ‘He made Clerks, remember?’ ‘Cause that’s the most memorable thing I think I’ve ever done,” he added. “I think this has a running shot at being like, ‘He made Clerks and that one cartoon that one time.’”
The show will star Chris Wood as Prince Adam/He-Man, Mark Hamill as Skeletor, and Sarah Michelle Gellar as Teela. It’ll be released in two parts with the first part coming on July 23, 2021.
Geeked Week has already brought a slew of release announcements, including the live-action Cowboy Bebop remake which will air later this fall. Netflix’s latest tweet also revealed that original anime composer Yoko Kanno has signed on to the live-action remake to produce all-new music.
But everyone is waiting on Witcher Season 2 news, and that might be coming on July 9, according to a bizarre conversation between the official Witcher game and TV show Twitter accounts.
