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Plot summary
Skeletor seizes Castle Grayskull and has the Sorceress held in a field that drains her strength, while He-Man, Man-At-Arms and Teela free Gwildor, a locksmith whose Cosmic Key opens a portal wherever its notes are played. The Eternians enter the castle to free the Sorceress, are overwhelmed, and escape through a portal to Earth, where the Key is lost. Julie Winston, a teenager, and her friend Kevin Corrigan find it, and Kevin takes it for a synthesizer. Skeletor's henchmen track the signal it sends and pursue them, and He-Man and his companions search for the Key that can carry them home.
Cast
- Tony Carrollas Beastman
- Pons Maaras Saurod
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Masters of the Universe (1987)
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- Toy company Mattel fell behind on paying its half of the production budget, forcing a crew member to put lens caps on the cameras on several shooting days to halt filming; director Gary Goddard ended up financing the He-Man versus Skeletor battle scene himself with only Dolph Lundgren, Frank Langella, and a skeleton crew present.
- Mattel initially barred He-Man from doing anything morally wrong on screen, such as swearing or killing, but loosened those restrictions midway through filming after He-Man toy sales unexpectedly dipped.
- Masters of the Universe flopped so badly that its failure, together with Superman IV and Lifeforce, helped push its studio, Cannon Films, out of business entirely.
- He-Man toy sales fell 98 percent in 1987, the very year the film opened in theaters, a collapse a former Mattel designer partly blamed on stores being oversupplied with unsold toys.
- Frank Langella said he immediately accepted the villain role of Skeletor, partly because his then four-year-old son loved the character and ran around the house yelling He-Man's battle cry, 'I have the power!'
- Composer Bill Conti could not record the score in the United States because of a musicians' strike, so it was pieced together from several European orchestras and multiple conductors, and Conti and mixer Dan Wallin had to assemble the final score from the various takes because of problems with the orchestral performances.
