HEAVY MATTEL
KEVIN SMITH IS EXCITED. “I’ve been waiting to talk about this fucking show for, like, two years!” he bawls.
This, ahem, show is the long-awaited continuation of 1983 Filmation classic He-Man And The Masters Of The Universe. A Netflix animation, Masters Of The Universe: Revelation is aimed at adults who grew up loving the show but also a new, modern audience.
Since it was announced at He-Man convention Power-Con in 2019, filmmaker Smith has had difficulty keeping the secrets of Eternia. “I give everything away. I’m not like M Night Shyamalan, where you can’t know the ending. I’ll tell you the ending of fucking Clerks III before it fucking happens and shit.”
MEETING OF MINDS
Before he does that, let’s nip back to pre-Power-Con, to ask how it came to pass that Smith landed the dream job.
“By accident,” he admits. “And by total laze.” Smith’s agent called to say Mattel – the toy company behind MOTU – wanted a meeting. “He said, ‘They’re in Santa Monica’. And I was like, ‘Oh, fuck Santa Monica, that’s like 45 minutes away. I ain’t going there.’”
Fortunately, his agent called back and said they’d be happy to come to him.