From Marvel and DC to Star Trek and Sonic the Hedgehog, Idris Elba has assembled an impressive collection of franchises he’s acted in. The latest of these is this summer’s Masters of the Universe, where he stars in the forthcoming reboot as Duncan, a.k.a. Man-At-Arms, one of He-Man’s key allies and adoptive father of Teela. Regarding why he decided to join the 2026 movie release, Elba revealed that he has a personal connection to Masters of the Universe stretching back decades.
While joining a major motion picture tied to existing IP can simply boil down to the paycheck for some actors, while others like the script they’ve read even without having any familiarity with the source material, Idris Elba goes way back with Masters of the Universe. As he told Empire:
