For weird build, Build Real might be better?
But the serie hasn't intorduce any weird build like the anime yet
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Netflix is Making a Live-Action Gundam Movie with Jordan Vogt-Roberts Directing
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For weird build, Build Real might be better?
But the serie hasn't intorduce any weird build like the anime yet
Mobile Fighter G Gundam
the one that Americans grew up with, make it happen
Nope. It's gonna be silly and stupid. Sunrise themselves have never attempted a live action movie since G-Saviour, which also btw was a western oriented production.
It's gonna be Netflix Death Note all over again
Stick to comics
I think they could tell an abridged side story, similar in scope to War in a Pocket, in the UC with the OYW as the backdrop. That way they can somewhat quickly go over the details without going to heavy into the politics. Because otherwise it honestly would need to be a series. Even for something grounded like an 08th MS Team adaptation a movie isn't long enough
Gundams are flying around doing all kinds of acrobatic stuff that the Jaegers in PR never come close to matching. Very different styles of giant robot.
It's a damn shame Spielberg is so against working on other IPs because man he would make a killer superman or mecha movie. His action direction is so dope in this corny film.
Americans grew up with Wing and was incredibly popular,
G Gundam and the UC stuff afterwards mostly killed Gundam off in America.
US Toysrus for example literally had a Gundam Wing section and a separate model kit aisle with Gundams.
Once Wing ended the Gundam section pegwarmed for a while then Toysrus killed both sections entirely.
They didn't start getting back into that stuff till 2012+ when they had to start going hard after hardcore and import collectors.
Pacific Rim is a kaiju story with mechs. The thematic narratives of gundam will be impossible to capture in 2 hours on top of everything else to keep it self contained.
The most self contained gundam movie is F91, and that was with Tomino/Japanese style story telling. Whatever the premise will be it will be bad. I wish they'd stop trying to make live action gundam fetch
It's a war story. You don't have to make a movie that narrates an entire conflict from one of the series, just like no one makes movies that are about all of the battles in WWII.
Films are pretty good at showing audiences the tip of the iceberg and implying the rest when it comes to adapting history, so in the same fashion they can do a fictional war. They just have to pick or create a new self contained event that works as a vertical slice.
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Is this the same live-action Gundam movie that was announced a few years ago? I'm assuming Netflix just picked up the rights to it.
Shinji jerking it in slow motion to a cover of Hallelujah would be pure Kino
That would make the most sense, it's still Legendary behind it. That leaked board also referred to it as UC2, but who knows at this point.
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it doesn't have to but that's a pretty big theme of Gundam
Gundam Wing is what we grew up with and it shits all over G Gundam
You're not wrong, F91 accomplishes this. It's also a Japanese work for Japanese audiences, and its animated, with a bunch of franchise touch points going unanswered because Japanese audiences are more familiar with Gundam relative to international audiences.
Basically, what I'm saying is that any production or script that is filtered (read: greenlit) through a Hollywood process is not going to be able to execute it properly without it just being a shell of its franchise peers. It's a recipe for disaster
No I mean, I meant, they're not gonna hit on any of the important themes of Gundam and just go "hey look cool robot".
Probably the best way for Netflix to do Gundam,
would work especially well if it was kept a 4-6 episode mini-series
Extremely excited for this, but also deeply worried. The CG will look good based on what we already seen from Legendary, but when/where will it take place in? That's the really worrisome question about this.
The ending kills me, lol
Dude that cold-bloodedly killed protag's teammate AND tried to straight up kill him multiple times- "Let's be bros!" *fist-bump freeze-frame ending* Outstanding! 😂
I'd watch it every time it came on HBO/USA Network back in the early 90s.
I enjoyed both Wing and G, but Wing is absolutely the one that caught on in the US, no other Gundam shows have managed to replicate its success here.
Either way, lots of luck trying to tell a self-contained Gundam story within the runtime of a feature-length film rather than through a TV series.
Either way, lots of luck trying to tell a self-contained Gundam story within the runtime of a feature-length film rather than through a TV series.
Reminder that even though Sony is producing the movie, Metal Gear is a Konami IP not a Playstation one. Sony also recently produced the Monster Hunter movie as well.
I also approve. G Gundam is just perfect for a live action movie I think.
Mobile Suit Gundam adaptation but it's only up to around Jaburo or so. Sequel planned.
New AU with strong shades of Wing and 00.
That's it. Those are my preferences. Either one could catch on OK.
08th MS Team certainly has its strengths but I sometimes wonder if folks misremember the quality of most of the stuff not involving the Mobile Suit battles themselves. The love story is bad even by UC Gundam standards!
New AU with strong shades of Wing and 00.
That's it. Those are my preferences. Either one could catch on OK.
08th MS Team certainly has its strengths but I sometimes wonder if folks misremember the quality of most of the stuff not involving the Mobile Suit battles themselves. The love story is bad even by UC Gundam standards!
Sure, but for Sony's sake - they have every reason to read all of these game adaptations as bets on the same core audience of filmgoers. The performance of one is a huge sign towards the viability of others, even if they don't own the IP.