Robotech Heading to Big Screen, Starring Toby Maguire 236
dominique_cimafranca writes "Classic anime cult favorite "Robotech" may be next for the big screen live action treatment, if recent news from SciFi.com's SCI FI Wire is to be believed. Tobey Maguire will produce and may star in the film. The article says 'Warner Brothers Pictures picked up the rights to Robotech, which features giant robots known as mechas. Maguire is producing through his Maguire Entertainment banner and is eyeing the lead role in what the studio plans as an SF franchise a la Paramount's hit Transformers.'" I wonder if they'll go back to the Macross source material when plotting the movie... there's a lot more good substance there then in our version.
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Besides that, a Robotech live-action with today's 3D animation will absolutely rock! It'd be hard to pack into 2 hours, but I'd like to see some of the 2nd and 3rd Robotech series (and/or Macross Plus) mecha involved, since they look so cool.
Re:I don't think it'll be the original version. (Score:5, Informative)
Re:BTW, Joust The Movie (Score:3, Informative)
They were knights (the game was loosely medieval-themed) and yeah you're right [gamerflicks.com] there is supposed to be a movie. Weird. Paramount is looking at it, the article says.
Still, once Paramount passes on the idea and they can't find another major production house to pick it up, it'll probably go direct-to-DVD. Maybe kill off an evening with it that way.
Interviewing Harmony Gold rep tonight (Score:4, Informative)
Macross Plus - Only sequel to WHAT? (Score:0, Informative)
It was three not two unrelated anime series that Carl Macek cut-and-pasted together to make Robotech.
The Super Dimension Fortress Macross http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Super_Dimension_
As for Macross sequels... Hell yes there were more. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Super_Dimension_
Robotech on the other hand had only one REAL sequel (Robotech Sentinels crashed and burned before even starting) - the 2006 Robotech: Shadow Chronicles. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robotech:_The_Shadow
Unless you are counting books and comics. http://www.robotech.com/infopedia/bibliography/ [robotech.com]
Re:It doesn't matter.. (Score:3, Informative)
Battletech, was actually the second version of the game. The orignal (which I still have a copy of) was called Battledroids. Both came after Robotech (well, actually after the japanese version - Macross), which itself was likely influenced by such shows as Battle of the planets, Star Blazers, and Voltron. (all of which are the American names for Japanese series, often totally unrelated to the storylines of the american versions)
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battletech [wikipedia.org]
Re:GoBots coming to live action... (Score:3, Informative)
[...]then have blurry, confusing fight scenes which make it really hard to figure out who's fighting who and what the hell's happening?
Transformers is hardly the only culprit here. The "handycam perspective" has been destroying films for years now.
I used to think it was done just so the director could cheap out on the choreography (after all, it doesn't have to be good when the audience can barely see what's happening), but they're so prevalent now, even in big-budget films, that I can only conclude that the two or three people in the world who like them are very influential.