She-Ra Live-Action Standalone Series in Early Development at Amazon

By | September 13, 2021

Variety is reporting that a She-Ra live-action series is in early development at Amazon Prime Video, with the project reportedly focusing on a new, standalone story that is not connected to the animated series.

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DreamWorks Animation, which produced Netflix’s She-Ra and the Princesses of Power, will executive produce the series that is currently in “very early stages.”

If the series is picked up, it would mark the first live-action adaptation of the character She-Ra, who first debuted in the 1985 animated movie He-Man and She-Ra: The Secret of the Sword as part of the Masters of the Universe franchise.

She-Ra’s initial spinoff, She-Ra: Princess of Power, ran for two seasons between 1985 and 1986. The series followed Princess Adora (voiced by Melendy Britt) who “raises her magic sword and becomes She-Ra, the most powerful woman in the universe, to aid her friends in defeating the Evil Horde so their planet Etheria can be free,” according to the official synopsis.

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Netflix’s reboot of the series premiered in November 2018 and concluded in May 2020. Developed by Noelle Stevenson, the five-season series is available to stream now and includes the voice cast of Aimee Carrero, AJ Michalka, Karen Fukuhara, Marcus Scribner, Reshma Shetty, Lorraine Toussaint, Lauren Ash, Christine Woods, Genesis Rodriguez, Vella Lovell, Jordan Fisher, Merit Leighton, Keston John, and Daniel Dae Kim. In 2021, the show won the GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Kids & Family Programming.

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