The Darkness believe in a film called He-Man

"If you think about it, who else could have done it?" asks The Darkness guitarist Dan Hawkins.

He believes the rock superstars, from Lowestoft in Suffolk, were the obvious choice to provide music for the new Masters of the Universe film - a reboot of He-Man.

The movie stars British actor Nicholas Galitzine and it is based on the hugely popular superhero character, first created in the 1980s.

"The composer, Dan Pemberton, wanted something quite bombastic and rock-based for the film," Hawkins told BBC Radio Suffolk's Wayne Bavin.

"He was talking to a mutual friend of ours about how he should go about the end credits, and my friend suggested me and The Darkness and he was like, 'Of course it's perfect, they're the only band that should do it'."

Hawkins founded the band with his brother Justin, and the Suffolk rockers had phenomenal success in 2003 with their first album, Permission To Land.

They split following their second LP, but reunited in 2011 and have been doing regular albums and tours ever since - with Justin also becoming a YouTube star.

• The character was created by company Mattel in 1982 and by the mid-80s, it was the company's most successful toy
• He-Man is the alter ego of Prince Adam, he comes from the planet Eternia and his arch-nemesis is the evil warlord Skeletor
• He transforms into He-Man by raising his sword and saying, "By the power of Greyskull, I have the power"
• Since then, it has inspired mini comics, a TV animation series, a film starring Dolph Lundgren and a Netflix animated series

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Hawkins said Pemberton sent him all the film's musical themes and after a few days of listening to them, he came up with a backing track.

"He was like, 'This is perfect," and then Justin sang on it, Rufus [Taylor] played drums on it, Frankie [Poullain] put on bass and that's it, it built up gradually," he said.

"I worked very closely with Daniel Pemberton and we produced it together, lots of different arrangements and going back and forth, as there always were in the film industry."

He described the track as "galloping rock", with some inspiration coming from bands such as Metallica.

Hawkins remembered watching He-Man with his brother and joked that he may actually be able to afford a Castle Greyskull play set now - one of the character's key locations - having been unable to when he was a child.

The band attended the UK premiere in London last month, meeting the cast and director for the first time.

"I was really impressed, it's got a lot to live up to... because of our nostalgic obsession with the characters that we grew up with and I think they've done it justice, it's an awesome film," he said.

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