We’ve got more casting news for the live-action Voltron production with Henry Cavill on board as a headliner.
Today, The Hollywood Reporter broke the news that Sterling K. Brown, Rita Ora, and John Kim have joined the cast. Brown’s previous credits include playing T’Challa’s uncle N’Jobu in Black Panther and co-starring with Jennifer Lopez in Netflix’s sci-fi flick, Atlas (pictured above). Ora is a singer-songwriter-actor whose credits include Fifty Shades of Grey and Detective Pikachu, and Kim had a part in the CW’s short-lived Nancy Drew series and played Ezekiel Jones on TNT’s The Librarians.
Voltron is inspired by the dubbed anime titled Voltron: Defender of the Universe, where five pilots defend said universe by combining their spaceships into a massive robot called Voltron. We don’t have any details on the plot, much less what roles these actors are taking on, though odds are good the three here are pilots, with Cavill and previously announced newcomer Daniel Quinn-Toye rounding out the crew. Or not! This is complete speculation.
Director Rawson Marshall Thurber, however, shared at VoltCon in October (via THR) the following:
“I want to make sure that we stay true to the heart and the spirit of Voltron. In this film, we’re going to be introducing an entirely new generation of pilots. We’ve reimagined Voltron for the live-action world, but we’re going to stay true to… those iconic elements that you love, that I love.”
Voltron is set to go into production in Australia this December.
