Get Ready for Liftoff: Live-Action ‘Mobile Suit Gundam’ Movie Blasts Off into Production in 2025
[The Epoch Times, November 1, 2024](Compiled and reported by Epoch Times reporter Ye Zijie) On the 31st local time, American Legendary Pictures and Japan’s Bandai Namco Image Production Company jointly developed a live-action mobile suit movie “Gundam” ( Gundan), written and directed by Jim Meeker, director of Netflix’s “Sweet Tooth: The Antlers” series, and will begin production in 2025.
The TV animation “Mobile Suit Gundan” is a famous Japanese robot animation series. Since its birth in 1979, it has created a trend of “realistic robot” animation for later generations. It covers 83 animation series and movies, and its toys create more than 6 toys every year. billion dollar economic value. On Thursday, “Deadline” reported that Jim Mickle, director of the “Sweet Tooth (2021)” series, will write and direct the live-action mobile suit movie “Gundam.”
“Gundam” is adapted from a Japanese anime and toy series and is the first-ever live-action movie in the Japanese Mobile Suit Gundam series. Production is expected to begin in early 2025. Legendary Pictures has been attaching great importance to this project. Netflix and “Kong: Skull Island” director Jordan Vogt-Roberts have previously collaborated on the project. version, but now they are no longer involved.
The “Mobile Suit Gundam” TV anime series is directed by Yoshiyuki Tomino (pen name: Yuki Tomino). The story is set in the Universal Era. In this era, humans have immigrated to space colonies. In order to seek autonomy, humans living in the colonies launched a war of independence. During the war, in order to save the innocent and weak, the young protagonist accidentally boarded the cutting-edge mobile weapon “Mobile Suit” to fight, and followed the army to survive.
Most recently, director Mikel’s “Sweet Tooth: The Antlers” series has received critical acclaim. The first two seasons received twenty nominations for the Children’s and Family Emmy Awards, ultimately winning four. He previously directed Cold in July (2014), which premiered to rave reviews at the Cannes and Sundance Film Festivals, and created the series Hap and Leonard.
Stills from the movie “Mobile Suit Gundam SEED FREEDOM” that will be released globally in 2024. (Provided by Lingbang Asia)
Japanese company Bandai is building a life-size Gundam robot in Yokohama Port. The picture shows an 18-meter-tall Gundam statue standing in a park in Tokyo on July 10, 2009. (YOSHIKAZU TSUNO/AFP via Getty Images)Editor in charge: Su Yang