Masters of the Universe | Official Trailer


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That’s clearly a joke playing on his name.
It gets better. His name on his desk is "Adam Glenn." In the Filmation cartoon, there is an episode that reveals that his mother was an astronaut from Earth by the name of Marlena Glenn who landed on Eternia.
 


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The MGM logo was a missed opportunity. Should have had Cringer/Battle Cat in it.
I feel like I've seen that done by other companies as parody, but not by MGM itself. It might be a great big no-no -- either from corporate on-high (once we start letting people do that, every film we make will feel compelled to do the same), or maybe for legal reasons (diluting one's own IP, perhaps?). I'm prepared to be wrong, but it just seems like they've missed opportunities enough in that regard that there's a reason for it not to be.
 

I feel like I've seen that done by other companies as parody, but not by MGM itself. It might be a great big no-no -- either from corporate on-high (once we start letting people do that, every film we make will feel compelled to do the same), or maybe for legal reasons (diluting one's own IP, perhaps?). I'm prepared to be wrong, but it just seems like they've missed opportunities enough in that regard that there's a reason for it not to be.
Other studios do it. Columbia in the Columbia Pictures opening has done all sorts of crazy stuff. Twentieth Century Fox has too. I think MGM are just fuddy duddies about it.
 

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