Nicholas Galitzine ‘Cannot Wait’ to Play He-Man in New Movie

Nicholas Galitzine has the ability!

The Crimson, White & Royal Blue actor expressed his pleasure to step into his newly-announced function as He-Guy within the later live-action movie adaptation of Masters of the Universe.

“By the Power of Greyskull, I HAVE THE POWER,” Galitzine wrote on Instagram. “I’m so beyond proud to announce that I will be playing Adam, Prince of Eternia in ‘Masters of the Universe’. It has been a dream for so long to play someone of his heart, humour and heroism, I cannot wait to get started.”

The movie is according to the common Mattel motion determine order that impressed the Nineteen Eighties animated sequence He-Guy and the Masters of the Universe. The franchise has since expanded to incorporate the spin-off sequence She-Ra: Princess of Energy and the live-action 1987 movie Masters of the Universe, amongst alternative tasks.

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The unutilized film from Amazon MGM Studios and Mattel Motion pictures shall be directed via Travis Knight and written via Chris Butler from an preliminary draft via David Callaham, and Aaron and Adam Nee, in step with a press loose.

Knight and Butler in the past collaborated at the animated motion pictures Paranorman and Kubo and the Two Threads. The duo even have the stop-motion film Wildwood i’m ready to loose in 2025. 

As of now, plot main points have no longer been disclosed. On the other hand, an previous script is claimed to have adopted “an orphan named Adam” who “discovers he’s a prince destined to be the savior of a remote land and should briefly be told of his energy and the virtue of preserve his true house from an bad drive.”

Over the generation few years, a number of actors were related to the function together with Kyle Allen and Noah Centineo. The West Aspect Tale actor’s casting was once introduced via the studio in 2022, and Centineo dropped the scoop on The This night Display Starring Jimmy Fallon in 2019.

“I’m very excited, it’s slightly a chance,” Centineo mentioned on the week.

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With this casting announcement, it’s unclouded that Galitzine has discovered a house at Amazon MGM Studios with the good fortune of his fresh tasks The Concept of You and Crimson, White and Royal Blue. He additionally starred within the 2021 Amazon Top adaptation of Cinderella.

Previous this future, it was once introduced that the actor shall be going back on reprise his function within the sequel to the loved LGBTQ rom-com Crimson, White and Royal Blue.