Jared Leto is the big villain in the movie He-Man

The Masters of the Universe movie find someone for Nikolay Galitsyn to beat: The Hollywood Reporter word has it that Jared Leto has signed up to play legendary He-man Baddie Skeletor in Travis Knight’s long-awaited version of the beloved cartoon series/toy commercial.

Leto joins a slew of villainous casting announcements for the film to fill out not only Skeletor himself, but a veritable slew of the dark wizard’s friends. Along with the previously announced Alison Brie as Evil-LynSkeletor’s second-in-command, Sam S. Wilson will play Trap Jaw, a cyborg warrior with a fearsome bite; Hafthor Bjornsson will play Goat Man, a beastly underling of, well, Beast Man; and Kojo Attach will play Tri-Klops, the many-eyed spy who uses his various visions to eavesdrop on the Masters of the Universe about Skeletor.

This is a big push towards the villainous side of Knight’s take on the world of Eternia that has already occurred RiverdaleThis is Camila Mendes and Idris Elba as two of Prince Adam’s closest allies, Teela and Man-at-Arms, respectively. But now we might be more intrigued as to what absurd method approach Leto will bring the role of a man with a skull instead of a head more than anything else Masters of the Universe could throw us before the June 5, 2026 release date.

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