The giant robot movie halo effect has begun with Voltron being the first beneficiary of the Transformers’ success on the big screen. Not much of a surprise, really, but I wonder if anyone genuinely believes that the only thing Transformers had going for it was huge mecha and not the fact that it’s one of the two most beloved toy properties of the 80s, if not all time.

This is interesting, though. The guy in charge of writing the Voltron script (involving a post-alien invasion earth and a ragtag band of survivors who discover the various Voltron body parts) seems to have become a sort of default writer for nerd-property scripts.

Marks has become a go-to guy in Hollywood for comicbook, videogame and toy-based adaptations.

He is adapting “He-Man and the Masters of the Universe” for Joel Silver at Warner Bros., as well as the Green Arrow pic “Supermax,” also at the studio. Marks also has “Street Fighter” in the works at Hyde Park and Fox.

Variety has more here.

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