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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!

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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 […]

NYCC 2015: A Live-Action TIGER AND BUNNY Movie Is In The Works

Lee B. Golden III

Fans familiar with the popular sci-fi anime franchise, Tiger And Bunny, are getting a live-action feature film following last week’s events at New York Comic Con. Black Butler helmer Satou Keiichi directed the original anime which launched in 2011 and spawned a slate of manga publications, games and movies up to last year. Joined by representatives from All Nippon Entertainment Works’ and Imagine Entertainment, Sunrise and Namco Bandai Entertainment hosted a panel at NYCC announcing the film according to ANN, which, inspired by the anime, will takes place in Manhattan-inspired Stern Bild City, where super-powered beings dubbed NEXT (Noted Entities with eXtraordinary Talents) are not only heralded, but sponsored and commercialized on television. And at the center of our story: two titular heroes with distinctively different ideologies on what it means to be a superhero. Director Ron Howard, whose next feat of epicness can be observed this December in the new film, In […]