Amazon MGM’s 'Masters Of The Universe' Gets Sasheer Zamata And Ram-Man
New characters alert! We don’t know what the roles are gonna be but they’re there!
The live-action Masters of the Universe at Amazon MGM Studios may already have its Sorceress (and her successor daughter), but now they’ve found a witch. Or someone who’s played one. The film, which recently began production has now added another three characters: Jon Xue Zhang as RamMan and two originals: Sasheer Zamata as Suzie and Christian Vunipola as Hussein.
Ram Man is described as a stocky warrior with poor verbal skills whose primary way of battling uses his head as a battering ram, leaving him naive, gullible and kind of dumb. An ally to the kingdom of Eternia, he’s actually genderbent in the 2021 CG reboot, civilian name Krass and is Adam's best friend, but here is “Ram Ma’am” who briefly falls in with bad forces as “Rampage”. She’s voiced by Judy Alice Lee and definitely more capable than the original iteration voiced by John Erwin. In the Revelation continuation (also 2021) he was voiced by Danny Trejo and in the 2002 series by Scott McNeil. No character descriptions were available for the two originals.
Zamata is coming off of non-performing appearances this past weekend for Saturday Night Live’s 50th anniversary, having been a cast member from 2014 to 2017. Her most recently seen work was as Jennifer Kale in Disney+’s Agatha All Along miniseries from Marvel Studios in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Her run as Adria Lafayette on Disney Channel’s Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur ended earlier this month as far as the streamer is concerned with the arrival of its final episodes. Zhang has been a stunt performer and recurred on Netflix’s The Brothers Sun. Vunipola has appeared in Miguel Wants to Fight and Queenpins.
This new Masters of the Universe movie is set to be released in theaters globally on June 6, 2026 and being so far out has kept its plot details under wraps. It is led by Nicholas Galitzine as Prince Adam and He-Man while Jared Leto will be Skeletor. Keeping it in the family, James Purefoy and Charlotte Riley as King Randor and Queen Marlena, Adam’s parents. Camila Mendes as Teela, Morena Baccarin as her mother the Sorceress, guardian of the castle, Alison Brie as Skeletor’s top underling Evil-Lyn, Idris Elba as Duncan, the royal family’s Man-At-Arms, Sam C. Wilson, Hafthor Bjornsson, and Kojo Attah as Trap Jaw, Goat Man and Tri-Klops, Skeletor’s henchmen, and Jóhannes Haukur Jóhannesson as the metal-armed ally Fisto. Laika founder and Kubo and the Two Strings director Travis Knight directs from a screenplay by Chris Butler, following initial drafts written by David Callaham, and brothers Aaron and Adam Nee. Escape Artists and Mattel Films are producing.
Source: The Hollywood Reporter