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Signup + An account already exists for this email address, please log in. Subscribe to our newsletterMasters of the Universe director Travis Knight says he always intended to make live-action Skeletor look the way he does in the He-Man cartoon – no ifs, ands, or buts.
"I said, 'Fuck that shit. Skeletor has a skull face,'" Knight told Empire when asked about previous iterations of the supervillain's look. "That's just the way it is. It's a living, talking, emoting skull, and that's that."
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