Jared Leto Is the He-Man Film’s Large Unhealthy

The Masters of the Universe film has discovered somebody for Nicholas Galitzine to beat up: the Hollywood Reporter has phrase that Jared Leto has signed as much as play legendary He-Man baddie Skeletor in Travis Knight’s long-in-the-making tackle the beloved animated series/toy advertisement.

Leto joins a bunch of villainous casting bulletins for the movie to fill out not simply Skeletor himself, however a veritable host of the darkish sorcerer’s cronies, too. Alongside the beforehand introduced Alison Brie as Evil-Lyn, Skeletor’s second-in-command, Sam C. Wilson will play Lure Jaw, the cyborg warrior with a fearsome chunk; Hafthor Bjornsson will play Goat Man, a beastly subordinate of, nicely, Beast Man; and Kojo Connect will play Tri-Klops, the multi-eyed spymaster who makes use of his completely different visions to eavesdrop on the Masters of the Universe for Skeletor.

It’s a significant increase to the villainous facet of Knight’s tackle the world of Eternia, which has already set Riverdale‘s Camilla Mendes and Idris Elba as two of Prince Adam’s closest allies, Teela and Man-at-Arms, respectively. However now we’re maybe extra intrigued about what absurd method approach Leto will carry to taking part in a man with a cranium for a head than anything Masters of the Universe would possibly throw at us earlier than its June 5, 2026 launch date.

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