GUNDAM: Preliminary Poster Signals New Live-Action Co-Production Moving Forward At Legendary
Legendary Pictures and Bandai Namco Filmworks Inc will co-finance the first ever live-action Hollywood adaptation based on the hit robot anime franchise.
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Netflix’s GUNDAM Movie Revealed In Hot New Concept Art
Netflix Japan Festival 2021 unveiled concept art for its upcoming feature adaptation of Yoshiyuki Tomino and Sunrise’s hit mecha/sci-fi anime franchise, Gundam, which you can view above. Jordan Vogt-Roberts (Kong: Skull Island) is directing from a script by Brian K. Vaughan, with Mary Parent, Cale Boyter and Naohiro Ogata producing, and with Jordan Vogt-Roberts and Vaughan exec producing alongside Makoto Asanuma. The story for the live-action film version of Gundam is being kept under wraps but the original Gundam series is set in the Universal Century, an era in which humanity’s growing population has led people to emigrate to space colonies. Eventually, the people living in the colonies seek their autonomy, and launch a war of independence against the people living on Earth. Through the tragedies and discord arising from this human conflict, not only the maturation of the main character, but also the intentions of enemies and the surrounding people […]
GUNDAM to become live-action Netflix film
Jordan Vogt-Roberts has been set to direct and produce Legendary’s first-ever live-action feature film version of Sunrise’s GUNDAM for Netflix. Brian K. Vaughan is penning the script, as well as executive producing the project with Cale Boyter overseeing on behalf of Legendary with the Sunrise creative team. The massively popular Mecha anime and science fiction media franchise is Sunrise’s multi-billion-dollar property that was created in 1979 and has spawned a multi-platform universe encompassing televised anime, manga, animated films, video games, plastic models, toys, and novels among other media. Gundam continues to dominate Bandai Namco’s earnings almost forty years after its inception. Gundam saw a rise in popularity in the United States by the mid-1990s. The story for the live-action film version of Gundam is being kept under wraps, but the original Japanese series is set in the Universal Century, an era in which humanity’s growing population has led people to […]
GUNDAM Enlists Brian K. Vaughan To Adapt And Exec Produce Live-Action Adaptation
New York Times bestselling and award-winning comic book creator, television and film writer Brian K. Vaughan has been officially tapped to pen a live-action adaptation of classic Japanaese IP, Gundam. Just in time for its 40th anniversary, the news comes following Legendary‘s shared announcement with Sunrise at Anime Expo in July 2018 prior to Vaughan’s three-year overall deal with Legendary the following December. The original 1979 Gundam anime, from the mind of Tomino Yoshiyuki, is set in the Universal Century, an era in which humanity’s growing population has led people to emigrate to space colonies. Eventually, the people living in the colonies seek their autonomy, and launch a war of independence against the people living on Earth. Through the tragedies and discord arising from this human conflict, not only the maturation of the main character, but also the intentions of enemies and the surrounding people are sensitively depicted. The battles […]
AX 2018: A Live-Action GUNDAM Movie Is Actually Happening! No…Not The Fake One You’ve Been Reading About… THIS ONE!
Take everything you’ve ever known, possibly loved and suspected about the possibilities of a live-action Gundam movie along with any ridiculous rumors and clickbait you’ve passed to friends on Facebook and Twitter, and chuck it by the wayside. News fresh from events at Anime Expo now makes it clear and crystal for fans of the long-running animated/toy/game/multimedia franchise that an ACTUAL FREAKING MOVIE is happening courtesy of Legendary Pictures and Bandai Namco’s film production shingle, Sunrise. All the details you need are below. Bask in it. Revel in it. And declare war on all clickbait. For this is THE REAL….EFFIN…DEAL! LEGENDARY TO PRODUCE LIVE-ACTION FEATURE FILM BASED ON SUNRISE’S WILDLY POPULAR GUNDAM FRANCHISE Multi-platform Animated Juggernaut to be Translated into Live-Action Film for the First Time Los Angeles, CA – July 05, 2018 – Legendary and Sunrise announced today at Anime Expo 2018, plans to co-produce the first-ever live-action feature […]