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Jordan Vogt-Roberts to helm Netflix's live-action Gundam movie
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It has been four years since the successful release of
Kong: Skull Island, and now director Jordan Vogt-Roberts has
finally found his next big project with Legendary. Vogt-Roberts
has officially signed on to direct the studio's first-ever
live-action feature film version of Gundam for Netflix, which
will be based on the universe of Sunrise's iconic Japanese
robot franchise.
This marks Legendary and Netflix's latest collaboration
together, the two companies previously worked on films such as
2016's Spectral and last year's Enola Holmes as well as shows
like Lost in Space and Pacific Rim: The Black. They are also
currently working on the anime series adaptation of
Skull Island and Tom Raider.
Plot details for the Netflix film are 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 are
sensitively depicted. The battles in the story, in which the
characters pilot robots known as mobile suits, are wildly
popular. The Gundam universe is replete with numerous
storylines of love and conflict along with the popular Gundam
battles, in which the characters operate robot suits called
Mobile Suits.
The live-action Gundam film will be penned by Brian K Vaughan.
It will be produced by Vogt-Roberts with Vaughan set as
executive producer. Legendary's Cale Boyter will oversee the
project along with the Sunrise creative team. The project was
actually first announced in 2018 at the Anime Expo.
Created by Hajime Yatate and Yoshiyuki Tomino, the franchise
first started in 1979 with the TV series titled Mobile Suit
Gundam. The massively popular Mecha anime and science fiction
media franchise is Sunrise's multi-billion-dollar property
that 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.
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