VOLTRON LEGENDARY DEFENDER Cast, Release Date, and More Revealed ExclusiveGood things come to those who wait, and Voltron fans must have been awfully good this year because this summer theyll be getting a brand new series in the form of Dream. Works Animations Voltron Legendary Defender on Netflix. We have known relatively little about the reboot of the fan favorite anime series so far, apart from the title and the identities of the showrunners, Joaquim Dos Santos and Lauren Montgomery, both of which were exclusively revealed by Nerdist. Now, were back with another heaping helping of exclusive information about the forthcoming Netflix series, including the release date, the cast list, and an extensive interview with the showrunners. Voltron Defender Of The Universe Episode 20' title='Voltron Defender Of The Universe Episode 20' />First things first, lets answer the biggest question on your mind who will be starring in the show As audiences learned at the Friday evening Voltron Legendary Defender panel at Wondercon, hosted by our own Jessica Chobot, the Paladins that will pilot the legendary mech have been cast and we can now exclusively reveal just whose voices will be gracing your television screens Jeremy Shada Adventure Time as Lance. Bex Taylor Klaus Arrow as Pidge. Josh Keaton Green Lantern The Animated Series as Shiro. Tyler Labine Tucker and Dale vs. Voltron Defender Of The Universe Episode 21 Its Be A Cold DayEvil as Hunk. Steven Yeun The Walking Dead as Keith. Kimberly Brooks Mass Effect as Princess Allura. Rhys Darby Flight of the Conchords as Coran. Cast members L R Josh Keaton, Steven Yeun, Bex Taylor Klaus, Jeremy Shada, Tyler Labine. The personalities of both the Power Rangers and Voltron are well represented, as well as their recognizable fighting styles. There are nice touches in the video, such. The Utterly Infectious Music of STEVEN UNIVERSE Now Has an Official Soundtrack. Watch Greys Anatomy Season 13 Episode 24 Ring of Fire Online Full Episode HD Stream Links. Voltron Defender Of The Universe Episode 22Now I dont know about you, but that cast list sent a shiver up my spine. Why has it never occurred to me before to put Rhys Darby in an animated series The man is an international treasure, and he is sure to delight in this series too, especially with such talented colleagues joining him. Without spoiling anything, I can tell you that I was given an extended look at the series and I enjoyed it greatly especially the vocal performances and the sleek animation. But when will you be able to enjoy all of season one for yourself A lot sooner than you think. Voltron Legendary Defender makes its debut on Netflix on June 1. Ill have time to binge all of it before San Diego Comic Con becomes my every waking thought. Earlier this month, I was invited to Dream. Works Animations campus to screen the an extended look at the series. This was, in fact, so I could sit down with executive producer Joaquim Dos Santos, co executive producer Lauren Montgomery, and design supervisor Christine Bian and grill them about the new series. What can viewers expect Why is now the right time for Voltron to make its triumphant return Why should audiences get excited about giant lion mechas uniting into a mammoth robot who does righteous battle in outer spaceThe answer, as it turned out, would come in the form of five interlocking lion robots. At one point in time, we heard that Dream. Works had acquired Voltron, and so we all started spinning, said Montgomery. We could make it goodTheir version of Voltron is remarkably similar to the original premise. Heres the official synopsis Five unsuspecting teenagers, transported from Earth into the middle of a sprawling intergalactic war, become pilots for five robotic lions in the battle to protect the universe from evil. Only through the true power of teamwork can they unite to form the mighty warrior known as Voltron Legendary Defender. They finally got their chance to make it good when Mark Taylor, an old colleague from Nickelodeon who had become the head of television production at Dream. Works Animation. After getting in the room with Taylor and other Dream. Works execs, they pitched their take on it and the rest was history. Well, not quite. It wasnt that easy Montgomery added with a laugh. So we were ecstatic, because we love the show. Indeed, their passion for the series is largely what landed them the coveted role as showrunners. Yeah, it was kind of a bucket list thing, said Dos Santos. The series, which first hit American airwaves in 1. Japan. Created by John Teichmann and Peter Keefe, the original incarnation of Voltron was Frankenstein ed together from two Japanese cartoons, Beast King Go. Lion and Armored Fleet Dairugger XV. DreamWorks Voltron Legendary Defender. DreamWorks Voltron Legendary Defender 2017 DreamWorks Animation LLC. TM World Events Productions, LLC. Good things come to those who wait, and Voltron fans must have been awfully good this year because this summer theyll be getting a brandnew series in the form of. Without any means of translating the Japanese into English, the duo tried to suss out what they could and simply make up the rest, overdubbing the audio with new dialogue and editing out some of the more violent bits that would have been seen as too much for American audiences. The result was one of the most popular childrens television shows of the 1. Yet while the striking animation style and explosive action of Voltron helped prepare a generation of viewers for future anime megahits like Dragon Ball Z, the original series doesnt exactly hold up. The dialogue and the audio are both atrocious, and feel far flimsier upon second glance than they did through the rose colored glasses of nostalgia. So how will Dos Santos and Montgomery update the 3. By chasing that vision of what they remember from their childhood. Watching it now, its a little bit different than the sort of the show you remember it being when you were a kid, Dos Santos said. Thats kind of whats exciting about it for us, Montgomery enthused. We love it, and were not going to be one of those people who just throws it to the side and doesnt pay any sort of homage or honor to it. We love the show, and we just want to see the version that we imagined we were watching. Flesh out all the characters, flesh out the world, build more of what was there originally, but keep all the fun, Dos Santos affirmed. I mean, its five lions that become a giant robot. You cant take it too seriously, but at the same time, you can set the stakes, and you can make it more than what it was originally. Voltron, Reimagined. Watch Switch Streaming here. With a key understanding of the weaknesses of the source material, Dos Santos and Montgomery felt ready to execute their mission of improving on the past to make a better future. Watch Online Watch Mrs. Doubtfire Full Movie Online Film. But they didnt want to make something that felt unrecognizable to fans who still love the original. In fact, quite the opposite they wanted to create something that felt like the Voltron people knew and loved in their youth, while giving it a more modern makeover. For me, everything had to pass this squint test, said Dos Santos. Like, you had to recognize everybody in everything. Voltron had to be recognized, the colors had to stand out, and so it had to retain that level of fun. Not everyone saw things their way, though. As Dos Santos revealed, though they were advocating for that level of childhood fun that drew them to the series in the first place, others involved in the conceptualization process wanted to go a slightly darker route. I think some of the ideas that were kicked around, for lack of a better term,. It was a stylistic direction that rankled Dos Santos and Montgomery, and was something they fought against vehemently. It was a big kind of battle on our part to keep it simple and fun and reminiscent to the old thing, Montgomery confessed. We were like, They enlisted a talented design team to help them create the best possible version of their vision. Part of the challenge in doing so was unshackling themselves from their childhood vision of Voltron, cherry picking what worked and ditching what didnt to make a better. Just, you know, slightly less luscious lips. With images of Michael Bays Transformers flashing before me, I couldnt help but agree. But those lips are creepy in an Uncanny Valley sort of way. The lips to which Bian referred were the cybernetic collagen nightmares of the original animated series Metallic mouth nightmares aside, Dos Santos revealed that one of the biggest challenges in making the new series was that the transition from traditional animation to CG means its far more difficult to smooth over rough patches and hide mistakes. Theres a little bit of fudging that goes on with the Voltron model and the lions, Dos Santos said.