Dolph Lundgren disappointed new Masters of the Universe underperformed

Original He-Man actor Dolph Lundgren said he was disappointed that the new Masters of the Universe movie didn't fare better at the box office. "Yeah, I was a bit disappointed. I mean, everybody told me it’s going to do great," Lundgren told ComicBook. "I’m not a huge believer in looking at the box office and that influencing how I feel that much emotionally about the picture.

But I did think about it like, 'Oh, okay. Um that was strange that didn’t do better.' And I don’t know why that is. They did a lot of marketing, they did a lot of press. I was part of it, some of it. I don’t know where it’s at now; I mean, I think it did fairly well overseas as well.

I’m not sure what that means really." Live-action He-Man adaptations have struggled before. Lundgren played Prince Adam opposite Frank Langella's Skeletor in the 1987 Masters of the Universe, which grossed $17 million against a $20 million budget.

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