The Live-Action Gundam Movie Has Gone Back to the Drawing Board

It’s been a blistery infinitesimal since we heard thing astir Legendary’s plans to turn Mobile Suit Gundam into a live-action movie, and it turns out, there’s been bully reason. The task has been rebooted, with a caller manager and seemingly nary longer without the engagement of Netflix (which has enough bad Gundam to woody with lately).

Deadline reports that previous manager Jordan Vogt-Roberts and the streamer are nary longer progressive with Legendary’s Gundam, but the movie isn’t wholly dead. Jim Mickle, champion known for his caller adaptation of Sweet Tooth (at Netflix, funnily enough), volition present constitute and nonstop the film, arsenic good arsenic nutrient it alongside his spouse Linda Moran done their accumulation institution Nightshade. The movie volition present participate accumulation successful aboriginal 2025.

Little is inactive known astir the attack the Gundam movie volition take, different than it being the archetypal live-action movie successful the venerable anime franchise since the disastrous G-Saviour. Whether the communicative volition accommodate the archetypal Earth Federation vs. secessionist abstraction colony warfare of Yoshiyuki Tomino’s archetypal 1979 classic, oregon 1 of the myriad other alternate timelines and continuities successful the 45-year-old series, oregon adjacent bash its ain happening entirely, remains to beryllium seen. We had previously seen conception art of a heavy damaged, modernized instrumentality connected the archetypal RX-78-2 Gundam, and Vogt-Roberts had spoken astatine magnitude successful caller years astir his passionateness for the series, truthful losing his engagement is perchance not-ideal for fans already wary astir a Western attack to the series.

We’ll bring you much connected Legendary’s plans for Gundam arsenic and erstwhile we larn them.

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