Brian May - astrophysicist, Queen guitarist, badger advocate, and now composer for the long-delayed Masters of the Universe film. If that sentence doesn't perfectly capture the beautiful chaos of 2026 entertainment news, nothing does.
Yes, that Brian May. The man who wrote We Will Rock You and played the guitar solo in Bohemian Rhapsody is scoring a movie about He-Man, the muscular hero from the 1980s toy line that nobody asked to be revived but Hollywood keeps trying anyway. And you know what? This might actually work.
May's guitar work has always had a certain epic, over-the-top quality that's perfect for fantasy adventure. The man knows how to make things sound big. Flash Gordon proved that Queen could score a campy sci-fi epic and somehow make it transcendent. If He-Man leans into that same energy - embrace the absurdity while taking the music seriously - this could be glorious.
The Masters of the Universe movie has been in development hell for what feels like decades, cycling through directors and scripts and stars. At various points it's been a gritty reboot, a family-friendly adventure, and probably seventeen other things that never made it past the concept stage. The fact that it's finally happening - and happening with Brian May attached - suggests someone finally figured out what this movie should be: big, ridiculous, fun.
What's particularly amusing is that May is one of rock's most serious musicians - literally a doctor of astrophysics - applying his talents to a property that is... not serious. He-Man is wonderful, but it's wonderful in the way that 1980s toy commercials disguised as cartoons are wonderful. It's camp. It's nonsense. It's He-Man riding Battle Cat into Castle Grayskull to fight Skeletor, and if you're not smiling at that mental image, you're taking life too seriously.
