After returning to the small screen with a new look on Disney XD, action figure Max Steel is set to appear in a live action feature late next year. Beginning as a late competitor to Hasbro’s Action man, the toy made his first TV appearance back in 2000 with a computer generated series that passed by quite quietly.
The re-imagined show, and the plot of the upcoming film, tells the tale Maxwell McGrath a teenage boy who fuses together with his alien chum Steel, to become the turbo powered superhero…Max Steel.You see what they did there?
The show’s growing popularity has prompted companies Open Road, Dolphin Films and toy manufactures Mattel, to revive the film project that was first hinted at over four years ago. Originally the studio’s had considered TWILIGHT star Taylor Lautner for the lead, but as his fandom has dwindled their looking for a new star who is yet to be announced.
Stewart Hendler (Bryan Singer’s Web Series H+ and digital series HALO: FORWARD UNTO DAWN) will direct, with a script penned by Christopher Yost who recently worked on both of Marvel’s THOR films. It looks set to be a fun family adventure that will hit cinemas in late 2014.
Source: FirstShowing
