Evil-Lyn Glows As Alison Brie Joins 'Masters Of The Universe'
The Beastmaster is NOT one of the Masters of the Universe, no matter how similarly built he is to He-Man
Alison Brie has documented Evil-Lyn tent, and consider it nabbed. The Community alum has joined Amazon MGM Studios’s Masters of the Universe to play the villainess Evil-Lyn, who serves as second-in-command to He-Man’s archenemy Skeletor.
While the character bears a magic wand crowned with a crystal ball, she often doesn’t need it to conjure magic, doing so independently of it. She also functions rather independently of Skeletor, with secret ambition to overthrow him, much like Starscream in Transformers. In the 1987 live action movie, the character was played by Meg Foster, while the original series continuations Revelation and Revolution had her voiced by Lena Headey, while the contemporaneous CG reboot had her voiced by Grey Griffin.
While best known for starring as Annie Edison in the Dan Harmon-created NBC sitcom, Brie followed that up starring in Netflix series Bojack Horseman and GLOW. She had a major recurring role on Mad Men beforehand, most recently appearing in the Peacock miniseries Apples Never Fall, and has dabbled in major IP before, largely through television voice work. Her first major film role was as Rebecca Walters in Scream 4, and voiced Princess Unikitty in The Lego Movie and its sequel. She voiced the Captain Planet-like character Planetina in the Rick and Morty episode "A Rickconvenient Mort", Am in the Star Wars: Visions episode "The Twins", and Ms. Dillon aka Aftershock in the first episode of Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur, “Moon Girl Landing”.
The new Masters of the Universe movie stars Nicholas Galitzine as the Grayskull-empowered Prince Adam and He-Man, and Camila Mendes, who recently dropped out of the I Know What You Did Last Summer sequel due to scheduling conflicts believed to be with this very film, as Teela. The plot of the movie seems to be in the midst of reconstruction as the newer details are being kept secret, but previously told of Adam coming to Earth as a child, being separated from his Power Sword, finding it after many years and being brought back to Eternia once it’s found to fend off Skeletor.
With Mendes and Brie’s casting coming a mere two weeks apart, more casting might come in quicker and chip away at what the new plot of the film might be. Laika founder and Kubo and the Two Strings director Travis Knight directs Masters of the Universe 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. It is set to be released in theaters globally on June 5, 2026.
Source: The Hollywood Reporter