Robotech

[elemental fantasy]

Bad news, there makin it, im not directin it, and TOBY MAGUIRE WANTS TO BE IN IT??? WTF?????????????????????????

Suicide is no longer an option, they will fuck this movie up, transformers was different then robotech, there was no epic tale, this will be a disaster!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070908/film_nm/maguire_dc

GODDAMN you hollywood!!!! Now you HAVE fucked up my childhood.

Now Voltron might be coo, but they'll fuck it up too!!!!!!

Goddamn you Hollywood, Macross saga was mine : (
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[Gabriel]

ROBOTECH news from cinematical:

Tobey Maguire Eyes a New Sci-Fi Franchise

by Erik Davis Sep 7th 2007 // 11:32AM

Warner Bros. is wicked smart: They looked and they said, "What's some of the hottest stuff out there right now that we don't have?" The answers: Giant f**king robots and Tobey f**king Maguire. And so Warner Bros. did what they do best -- they went out and picked up the rights to the anime classic Robotech, brought Maguire on to produce through his Maguire Entertainment and are currently seducing him into starring in the lead role. Better yet -- they're also eying this as their next tentpole sci-fi franchise.

Lawrence Kasdan is Writing a Live-Action 'Robotech'

by Jessica Barnes Jun 16th 2008 // 2:32PM

Despite a resume full of fantasy and action flicks, Lawrence Kasdan will forever be synonymous with 'Boomer' movies like The Big Chill and Grand Canyon. But, this is the man who wrote Raiders of the Lost Ark and Return of the Jedi, so it's not like a script about giant robots and alien invasions is that big of a stretch. The Hollywood Reporter announced that Kasdan has signed to write the script for a live-action adaptation of the Japanese anime, Robotech, for Warner Bros.

Also on the AICN frontpage and CHUD.

[Trailbreaker]

Thank you for digging up this nearly 2 year old thread.

[Gabriel]

From SciFi Wire:
Losers director confirms he may do Robotech

From IESB:
WonderCon 2010: Sylvain White Approached To Direct Robotech Movie!

[snipperoth]

From SciFi Wire:
Losers director confirms he may do Robotech

From IESB:
WonderCon 2010: Sylvain White Approached To Direct Robotech Movie!

He doesn't confirm it, he only says that he wants to do it. And i think that this thread may open up again 2 years later from now XD

[Gabriel]

From CHUD: SYLVAIN WHITE TALKS ROBOTECH

"I'm interested in doing it. The project is not fast tracked. There is no official thing. They sent me a draft and I liked it. It's a work in progress."

[Gabriel]

Warner Bros. Chooses 'Robotech' Director (Heat Vision Exclusive)
Commercials helmer Nic Mathieu is in talks to helm the studio's adaptation of the mecha-centered Japanese cartoon series.

Nic Mathieu has been tapped to direct Robotech, Warner Bros.’ big-budget adaptation of the venerable anime featuring giant mechanical warriors.

The project has major franchise potential -- on the scale of Transformers -- and has been in development at the studio since 2007. Akiva Goldsman and Tobey Maguire are producing along with Matthew Plouffe, Joby Harold and Tory Tunnell.

Many writers have worked on the screenplay, but this is the first time a director has been in negotiations to board the project.

The producers conducted an exhaustive search in the fall to find a director who could bring a cutting-edge and modern approach to Robotech, which was a 1980s cartoon series from Harmony Gold USA and Japan's Tatsunoko Productions. It was re-edited and re-dialogued to combine three Japanese anime series to give the producers enough episodes to air as a daily syndicated series.

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 island. 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 project is a coup for Mathieu, a commercials director whose spots are known for their inventive CG effects but who has yet to make his feature debut.

But Warners already has shown it has plenty of faith in the burgeoning filmmaker: He is attached to direct The Wind, a David Keopp-written sci-fi project that the studio picked up in spring 2012 after being dazzled by his impressive presentation.

Mathieu also is attached to direct The Story of Your Life, an alien drama being produced by Shawn Levy’s 21 Laps.

He is repped by WME, Anonymous Content and Loeb & Loeb.

[frolunda71]

Now this I wanna see!!!!!
I remember seeing the cartoon when I was a little kid and I just loved it! Fighter Jets that turned into robots and blasted everything away. What was there not to like!