“Masters of the Universe” Trailer Finds Nicholas Galitzine’s He-Man Battling Jared Leto’s Skeletor

The first teaser for director Travis Knight‘s Masters of the Universe finds Nicholas Galitzine’s He-Man describing a pretty fantastical world—talking tigers, spaceships, and magic swords that can make a man as mighty as a god—a world that we know He-Man himself inhabits. The catch? Galitzine’s reading this story while sitting on a bed, wearing a shirt and tie, no less, decidedly not on the planet Eternia.

We learn that He-Man, aka Prince Adam of Eternia, was sent away to Earth by his mother, Queen Marlena (Charlotte Riley), to keep him safe. Now, instead of wielding the Sword of Grayskull to transform him into He-Man, Adam Glenn, as he’s now known, is toiling away in a cubicle in corporate America. That is, until he gets a text that reads “I found your sword.”

The found sword (held in a toy store by a giant plastic He-Man-like mannequin) leads Adam back to Eternia, where danger awaits. And so do friends, including Duncan/Man-At-Arms (Idris Elba), Roboto (voiced by Kristen Wiig), Cringer/Battle Cat (He-Man’s loyal house cat that turns into a mighty tiger), and Teela (Camila Mendes). He-Man will need all the help he can get when he sees who he’ll be facing—the skull-faced sorcerer Skeletor (Jared Leto) and his forces.

Knight is adapting from one of the most beloved if brief running cartoons of the 1980s, He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, which ran for two seasons of 65 episodes each, spawning two films; a 1987 live-action Masters of the Universe, directed by Gary Goddard and starring Dolph Lundgren as He-Man, Frank Langella as Skeletor, and Meg Foster as Evil-Lyn, and He-Man and She-Ra: The Secret of the Sword, which then spawned the spinoff series She-Ra: Princess of Power.

The cast also includes Alison Brie as Evil-Lynn, James Purefoy as King Randor, Morena Baccarin as The Sorceress, and Jóhannes Haukur Jóhannesson as Malcolm/Fisto. 

Check out the new trailer here. Masters of the Universe hits theaters on June 5.

Featured image: (l-r): Roboto (Kristen Wiig), Man At Arms (Idris Elba), Adam (Nicholas Galitzine), Teela (Camila Mendes) and Cringer in MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE.