By Alex Vena
Published May 12, 2026, 1:03 p.m. ET
Fans of Voltron anxiously awaiting the release of the upcoming live-action remake will not be heading to theaters to watch it.
Amazon MGM Studios’ live-action remake of the ’80s animated series will head straight to streaming on Prime Video upon its release, Collider reports. According to the outlet, the move was announced by the studio on Monday (May 11). The exact release date has yet to be announced.
DECIDER reached out to Amazon for additional information.
The Hollywood Reporter broke the news of the bidding war taking place over the film in 2022. Hailing from director Rawson Marshal Thurber (Red Notice), the film boasts a star-studded cast, featuring Henry Cavill, Sterling K. Brown, Rita Ora, Daniel Quinn-Toye, John Kim, Samson Kayo, Alba Baptista, Tharanya Tharan, and Laura Gordon, per Games Radar’s Total Film.
According to Deadline, Brown teased what fans can expect of the film at last year’s San Diego Comic Con.
“Rawson Marshall Thurber is the director, the screenwriter. I think he’s come up with a really wonderful vision to reintroduce something that we grew up with in the ’80s to the 2027 crowd,” he said. “It’s heartfelt. It is big. It’s big, bodacious and dynamic, and that’s why it takes probably about 48 weeks of post-production to finish the thing off and get it together. I think things will be wildly entertaining.”

Voltron: Defender of the Universe, which aired from 1984 until 1985, followed “five lion robots and their pilots as they fight the evil forces of King Zarkon and Prince Lotor,” per IMDb. Among those in the voice cast were Peter Cullen, Michael Bell, Jack Angel, Neil Ross, Lennie Weinrib, and B.J. Ward.


















