Kevin Smith

By The Power of Grayskull! Clerks filmmaker Kevin Smith is teaming up with Netflix to revive the He-Man and Masters of The Universe series.

The early 80s animated franchise started life as a Mattel toy range inspired by the success of the Star Wars action figures.

It was later turned into a film starring Rocky actor Dolph Lundgren .

Last year, Netflix premiered She-Ra and The Princesses of Power, a spin-off.

"This is The Masters of The Universe story you always wanted to see as A Kid !" Smith told The Audience at the annual Power-Con convention in California at the weekend.

The series premise revolved around The Conflict between heroic He-Man aka "The Most powerful man in The Universe " and The Evil sorcerer Skeletor on The Planet Eternia,

"I'm Eternia-ly grateful to Mattel TV and Netflix for entrusting me with not only The Secrets of Grayskull, but also their entire Universe," Smith added.

The new series, Masters of The Universe : Revelation, will apparently pick up where the original animated series left off and will use Japanese anime-style Animation .

Smith will serve as showrunner and executive producer while Mattel Television will act as producers.

The 1987 movie, which also starred Frank Langella and a pre-Friends Courteney Cox , was a critical and commercial flop which failed to earn back its reported $22m budget.

But the film has since attained cult status among some fans and the characters remain popular, even appearing in a recent British TV advert which saw enemies He-man and Skeletor from The Movie Dirty Dancing .

Twenty-two-year-old actor Noah Centineo confirmed earlier this year that he has been cast as the musclebound hero in a Live Action remake of Masters of The Universe .

He told The Tonight Show 's Jimmy Fallon : "It's quite an opportunity. "

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Source of news: bbc.com