Netflix and Mattel’s “Masters of the Universe: Revelation”: Watch Kevin Smith Reacts to Bear McCreary’s Score
Emmy® and BAFTA® Award winning composer Bear McCreary (The Walking Dead, Battlestar Galactica, Outlander) has joined Netflix and Mattel Television’s highly anticipated upcoming anime series Masters of the Universe: Revelation.
As part of the first audio released from the series, showrunner and executive producer Kevin Smith reacts to hearing the score for the first time, composed by McCreary. The clip follows the transformation sequence, when Prince Adam becomes He-Man. Masters of the Universe: Revelation, a series based on He-Man, Skeletor, Teela and the other classic characters of the Masters of the Universe franchise, will premiere on Netflix in 2021. The new series will focus on the unresolved storylines of the iconic characters, picking up where they left off decades ago.
Emmy® and BAFTA® Award-winning composer Bear McCreary began his career as one of the final protégés of film music legend Elmer Bernstein, with whom he worked for nearly a decade. Bear burst onto the scene scoring the influential and revered series Battlestar Galactica. He won an Emmy® Award for Outstanding Original Main Title Theme for Da Vinci’s Demons, a musical palindrome that sounds the same forwards and backwards. Bear also received Emmy® Award nominations for his work on Black Sails, Outlander and Human Target, and has twice been awarded ASCAP Composer of the Year by his peers. His recent projects include Universal Pictures / Blumhouse Productions’ Freaky; Netflix’s acclaimed documentary Crip Camp, produced by Barack and Michelle Obama; Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures’ Godzilla: King of the Monsters; Paramount Pictures and Bad Robot Films’ 10 Cloverfield Lane; Orion Pictures’ Child’s Play; Universal Pictures/Blumhouse Productions’ Happy Death Day; Netflix’s Rim of the World; Netflix’s The Babysitter: Killer Queen; Netflix’s Eli; Apple TV+’s SEE; AMC’s The Walking Dead; Disney’s Marvels’ Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.; Vertical Entertainment’s The Professor and the Madman; Netflix’s Animal Crackers; and Sony PlayStation’s video game God of War for which he received a BAFTA® Award.
The Powerhouse Animation produced series and the cast is as follows.
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Mark Hamill (Star Wars, Batman: The Animated Series) as Skeletor
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Lena Headey (Game of Thrones, 300) as Evil-Lyn
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Chris Wood (Supergirl, The Vampire Diaries) as Prince Adam / He-Man
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Sarah Michelle Gellar (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Cruel Intentions) as Teela
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Liam Cunningham (Game of Thrones, Clash of the Titans) as Man-At-Arms
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Stephen Root (Office Space, Barry) as Cringer
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Diedrich Bader (Office Space, Napoleon Dynamite) as King Randor / Trap Jaw
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Griffin Newman (The Tick, Vinyl) as Orko
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Tiffany Smith (Behind Enemy Lines, Supernatural) as Andra
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Henry Rollins (Johnny Mnemonic, Lost Highway) as Tri-Klops
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Alan Oppenheimer (original Skeletor) (Westworld, He-Man and the Masters of the Universe) as Moss Man
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Susan Eisenberg (Wonder Woman, Justice League) as Sorceress
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Alicia Silverstone (Clueless, Batman & Robin) as Queen Marlena
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Justin Long (Galaxy Quest, Live Free or Die Hard) as Roboto
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Jason Mewes (Clerks, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back) as Stinkor
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Phil LaMarr (Mad TV, Justice League) as He-Ro
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Tony Todd (Candyman, Star Trek: The Next Generation) as Scare Glow
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Cree Summer (DC Super Hero Girls, Vampirina) as Priestess
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Kevin Michael Richardson (The Batman, ThunderCats) as Beast Man
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Kevin Conroy (Batman: The Animated Series, Crisis on Infinite Earths) as Mer-Man
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Harley Quinn Smith (Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood, Jay and Silent Bob Reboot) as Ileena
"There are also other characters that come and go (also owned by the Warner Bros. Discovery conglomerate media company)."
Huh. Is that just referring to other characters from the show itself, or is this implying that the new season is going to have cameos from other WBD IPs