Movie News: Robotech
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"Robotech" To Get Big-Budget Feature Adaptation
(darkhorizons.com) Commercials director Nic Mathieu has been tapped to direct the big-budget adaptation of the 1980s anime franchise "Robotech" for Warner Bros. Pictures.
A sprawling sci-fi epic, "Robotech" takes place at a time when Earth has developed giant robots from the technology on an alien spacecraft that crashed on a South Pacific isle. Mankind is forced to use the technology to fend off three successive waves of alien invasions.
The first invasion concerns a battle with a race of giant warriors who seek to retrieve their flagship's energy source known as "protoculture," and the planet's survival ends up in the hands of two young pilots.
The original "Robotech" was a re-edited and re-dialogued to combine three Japanese anime series to give the producers enough episodes to air as a daily syndicated series.
The project has been in development since 2007 with numerous writers attached, this is the first announcement of a potential director.
Akiva Goldsman, Tobey Maguire, Matthew Plouffe, Joby Harold and Tory Tunnell are producing.
(darkhorizons.com) Commercials director Nic Mathieu has been tapped to direct the big-budget adaptation of the 1980s anime franchise "Robotech" for Warner Bros. Pictures.
A sprawling sci-fi epic, "Robotech" takes place at a time when Earth has developed giant robots from the technology on an alien spacecraft that crashed on a South Pacific isle. Mankind is forced to use the technology to fend off three successive waves of alien invasions.
The first invasion concerns a battle with a race of giant warriors who seek to retrieve their flagship's energy source known as "protoculture," and the planet's survival ends up in the hands of two young pilots.
The original "Robotech" was a re-edited and re-dialogued to combine three Japanese anime series to give the producers enough episodes to air as a daily syndicated series.
The project has been in development since 2007 with numerous writers attached, this is the first announcement of a potential director.
Akiva Goldsman, Tobey Maguire, Matthew Plouffe, Joby Harold and Tory Tunnell are producing.
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Anyone wants to boycott this because it's based of Macek's vision and not the original series can bite me. I'll buy an extra ticket to cover the one you won't.
Lord, it's not like I have time to educate everyone who thinks Eccleston was the first Doctor. :)
And, funny you should call it a soap opera - because, even as a kid, that is what I called it when describing it - a soap opera for guys.
A couple of years ago, I sought out the Robotech DVD's - yes, the completely Americanized-for-the-palate-of-the-unwashed-masses version - and I still love it. Sorry to upset any purists out there.
Wait, no I'm not.
Ignore that last part.
More than that, it was a gateway drug to anime for many people who didn't have the benefit of Speed Racer or Battle of the Planets like I did. Oh wait, I'm sorry...Mach-Go-Go and Gatchaman. :)
Yes, that means I liked Shadow Chronicles as well. :)
And I remember the whole "Well, you really should be watching Macross, not Robotech" chatter on the previous forum, too. I promptly ignored it. Like what you like the way you like it, says I. Gatchaman, for instance, is definitely the better show than Battle of the Planets, but BotP has a goofy charm than can't be denied (I even like 7-Zark-7 and those weird ping pong scenes!).
I think if you ever wonder whether you are doing your fandom "right", then you are doing it wrong. (Or, perhaps, you just have too much time on your hands, and should find more things to enjoy with all that extra time). Any time spent considering or defending the depth of your fandom seems time better spent on things you enjoy.
I keed, I keed. BotP was what got me on board as well.
And, then, in my heart, I apologized to Rick Hunter, for all the bad thoughts I ever had toward him and his blind/stupid love. I feel you, bro. I feel you.
1) TV shows that tell one long continuous story are awesome.
2) When missiles fly, they rock back and forth and fly around in circles as the rocket forward.