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Wait, didn’t Netflix previously drop out of production of the live action adaptation?

>>23729159
Yeah, they had the Kong Skull Island guy attached to direct too.

But that was like 5 years ago now

>>23729164
I thought so, wonder what convinced them to get back on the saddle?

>>23729165
Maybe they were spending a lot on the production and got fed up with no results.

"If you ever get this off the ground we would love to distribute it, but we are backing out of the production part" sorta thing

>>23729165
Having all access to all raw footage of Sydney in the movie.

>>23729152
>A live-action Canadian telefilm called G-Saviour aired on TV Asahi in 1999.
and we all know how that went

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>>23729159
>Wait, didn’t Netflix previously drop out of production of the live action adaptation?
No. They never "dropped out". Where did you even hear that? Netflix was ALWAYS involved in production and distribution of the Gundam movie. The Gundam movie was a partnership between Netflix and several other companies.

The only thing that's changed is the Director. The Kong Skull Island got fired shortly after he offended Tomino.

Why do you care so much about something that'll never happen and will suck even if it does

>>23729236
>Netflix was ALWAYS involved in production and distribution of the Gundam movie. The Gundam movie was a partnership between Netflix and several other companies.

https://deadline.com/2024/10/gundam-movie-sweet-tooth-jim-mickle-1236163584/
>Legendary has been high on this priority for some time and one point was working on a movie with Netflix and Jordan Vogt-Roberts but both the streamer and Vogt-Roberts are no longer involved.

>>23729268
Deadline got their informairon wrong. Netflix never dropped out. Only the Director did.

>>23729274
Sure.

>>23729274
>And my name? Yoshiyuki Tomino.

>>23729268
Different anon here.

That's not confirmation of Netflix dropping out. Deadline is just sharing rumors and speculation. They do that all the time. No exit was ever officially confirmed with Netflix.

The only thing we do 100% know is Netflix officially announced they were involved with the live action Gundam and then went quiet since 2022. It's also extremely unlikely Netflix would join production, leave production, and then rejoin production again. Especially in such a short period of time. They are likely just staying quiet.

Plus Netflix has been very interested in anime for a long time and has been dumping millions into expanding their catalog. And spending hundreds of millions of dollars on adapting live action anime like One Piece. Gundam is one the biggest franchises in Asia, and there's no way Netflix is going to miss out on that.

>>23729236
>The only thing that's changed is the Director. The Kong Skull Island got fired shortly after he offended Tomino.
Hold on. Gimme a quick run down? I haven't been paying attention. What did Tomino do?

>>23729287
>and then rejoin production again
They didn't join the production. They are just the distributor

>>23729288
Here's the vague Timeline as I know it.

1. Tomino said it's his life long dream to work on live action movies. He wanted to direct gundam himself, or at least be brought on as a consultant. He wanted to share some ideas he had for the live action movie with the Director.

2. Director Jordan refused to meet Tomino. Rumors say Jordan wanted to keep Tomino away. That Jordan wants to tell his "own" Gundam story.

3. Japanese Media asked Tomino about his thoughts on the live action Gundam movie and if he was excited. Instead of giving a nice politically correct answer, Tomino angrily complained that he's been blacklisted from his own franchise.

Tomino said all his calls and attempts to reach out to the Director and staff were ignored. He said the Director has never met with him even once since the the movie was announced. That the entire production refuses to answer his calls or emails. Not even a polite response. Tomino was blocked. Tomino said he is extremely disappointed with the Director's behavior so far and he doesn't give his blessing to this film. That he doesn't approve.

4. Tomino's words goes viral on Japanese internet. Fans start taking Tomino's side. Some say they won't see the movie if Tomino is treated like that.

5. Soon after Bandai suddenly goes into damage control mode.

6. Jordan is flown out to Japan. Jordan suddenly makes social media posts about choosing to "pay his respects" to Tomino, and that he's choosing to fly out to Japan. (Bandai probably told him to do it.)

7. Jordan meets with Tomino during his visit.

8. 2 to 3 weeks after his trip to Japan and his meeting with Tomino, Jordan is suddenly fired and removed from the movie.

>>23729293
Do you have a vendetta against Netflix or something?

>>23729304
didn't he also get his head beat in at a nightclub in saigon? maybe he should just stay away from asia

>>23729306
What an odd non sequitur. What even lead to you thinking that? If anything them being just the distributor is a good thing, as it would be less money wasted on this garbage fire

>>23729304
Jordan seemed like a very weird guy. None of his video interviews felt genuine or gave me the feeling that he was a real Gundam fan.

>>23729293
Distribution means Netflix is paying tens of millions of dollars upfront to become the exclusive distributor of the Gundam movie. This money goes to the movie budget. Since distributors contribute so much money to the movie, they have some moderate level of say in the story, and can make certain demands. Such as: "We demand XYZ actress be in the movie" or "I want one of the heroes to be black/hispanic/Chinese/etc" or "Cut this scene out. It's too anti-american".

Netflix definitely has leverage in this situation if they want to make some demands. It all comes down to how much money Netflix is paying upfront. More money = more right to make demands.

They couldn't get anyone better for the leads?

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>>23729152
I give it a
1% chance of being actually good and a solid entry in the gundam franchise
12% chance of being tolerable and mostly forgettable but not offensively bad in anyway
15% chance of being good if you only focus on the mecha parts
72% chance of being dogshit with zero redeeming qualities

>>23729304
Based Tomino.

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>>23729199
G-Saviour is kino with the correct lenses.

>>23729319
/tv/Chad here
Be Fucking Happy with the scraps thrown at your niche little transformers movie you fucking dweebs

>>23729400
Where does Pacific Rim (2013) fall on your ratings list?

What if Gundam is equal to that?

>>23729450
Michael Bay is never coming back, Chinaman.

>>23729317
That's not how it works. By that logic, Netflix can dictate what is and isn't in the second Hathaway film because they're getting exclusive streaming rights to that as well. Sunrise/Legendary PAID Netflix to distro the film, not the other way around. Unless Netflix specifically wants exclusivity for titles, companies pay them to host it. Why else do you think Sakamoto Days committee is complaining about Netflix bilking them? They can't say shit for what goes into a film.

>>23729304
None of what you claim to have posted is remotely accurate. Roberts walked away from the project himself because Sunrise didn't want to embrace his "all over the fucking place homage to everything" mentality of geeking out.

The ideal Gundam live action adaptation is basically 1917 but with mobile suits. This won't be it so at best it will be either forgettable or utter dogshit at worst.

>>23729466
>That's not how it works
Yes that's actually how it does work. Especially if it's before the movie is filmed. Netflix can't have total control, but if they are paying 30% of the budget then they do have some say. You may not like Netflix but that's the reality of movie productions.

>>23729152
If Tomino is directly babysitting the production, then I guess we at least won't get the War for Earth 2: non-interactive edition.

>>23729488
Just keep pulling shit out of your ass padre. Show me where they're dictating what's being shown in the Hathaway film, or SEED FREEDOM's future production then since they apparently "paid the big bucks" to host them. Go ahead, we'll wait.

Fucking dumbass cuntmuffin.

>>23729152
>Autistic gay Amuro
>Girl boss lesbian Sayla
>Tranny Char
Good. I hope Gundam dies for the third time in the west.

>>23729466
Lmao. Jordan hasnt directed a feature film in 10 YEARS. He's the one desperate for film work. He didn't quit Gundam. His ass was fired for pissing off Godfather Tomino. LMAO.

>>23729304
I choose to believe this is true because it conforms to my biases.

>>23729536
All of those were in production before Netflix joined, and none of them were live action. This new movie is live action Gundam and meant for the Western market. That's why we got Sydney Sweeney.

>>23729588
we got Sydney because she's fucking popular in Japan and they need something to appeal to them when this flops stateside, that's all. Netflix has nothing to fucking do with this.

>>23729568
Tomino doesn't have that authority you dumb fucking shitgibbon. ROBERTS WALKED AWAY. HE FUCKING SAID IT.

>>23729588
They’re DISTRIBUTING, not PRODUCING. Two different words anon, take a dictionary and start learning your vocabulary again

>>23729601
>ROBERTS WALKED AWAY. HE FUCKING SAID IT.
Shut up Jordan. We know you browse /m/. You even stole some of our memes and shared it on your Twitter account. Tomino booted your ass out because you didn't kiss the ring.

>>23729455
PacRim is good
Uprising is dogshit with zero redeeming qualities

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Who will she play?

>>23729670
Genderbend Amuro

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>>23729670
My queen.

>>23729670
Sayla M A S S

>>23729670
Captain Deux Tettas.

>>23729670
Gene. The first named zaku death.

>>23729604
You don't understand how movie production works.

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>>23729692
Calm down, Mashymre.

>>23729539
I'd watch that porn

>>23729539
But which one is black?

>>23729670
Relena

>>23729466
>Roberts walked away from the project himself because Sunrise didn't want to embrace his "all over the fucking place homage to everything" mentality of geeking out.
That is generally what studio people say when they're trying to be diplomatic, because they don't want to ruin his career

>>23729920
Yeah pretty sure it was his incompetence and being a lazy fuck too busy tweeting that got him the boot, pretty sure he posts here too. Skull Island was fine though.

>>23729670
Big Titty Demon. That's who she'll play

>>23729870
All of them. All of them will be black. Even Sydney

>>23729304
Tomino was right.

>>23729304
>2. Director Jordan refused to meet Tomino. Rumors say Jordan wanted to keep Tomino away. That Jordan wants to tell his "own" Gundam story.
>3. Japanese Media asked Tomino about his thoughts on the live action Gundam movie and if he was excited. Instead of giving a nice politically correct answer, Tomino angrily complained that he's been blacklisted from his own franchise.
>Tomino said all his calls and attempts to reach out to the Director and staff were ignored. He said the Director has never met with him even once since the the movie was announced. That the entire production refuses to answer his calls or emails. Not even a polite response. Tomino was blocked. Tomino said he is extremely disappointed with the Director's behavior so far and he doesn't give his blessing to this film. That he doesn't approve.
Any source for this?

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>>23729601
>ROBERTS WALKED AWAY. HE FUCKING SAID IT.
Just like how the game of thrones retards definitely walked away from every announced project they had on the table after season 8's shitshow?

>>23729304
what a lod of bullshit except 1st point.
even /vt/ can make a more convincing rrat that this.

>>23729932
So that's the power of Devil cells...

>>23729152
I have no hope for this and the director I have no clue about but he seem middling at best from the reviews of his past works. The original Pacific Rim shows Hollywood can do decent mech albeit Pacific Rim is very different compared to Gundam, but there's been many times more failures and lots of failed live action adaptations of anime.

>>23730451
The director seems to be Jim Mickle, who has done some Netflix shows like the adaptation of Sweettooth, which I didn't watch, last film was in 2019 called In the Shadow of the Moon, which seems to be some crime drama.
Not a filmography that inspires confidence for making a Gundam film.
Pacific Rim worked almost entirely due to Del Toro once he was gone from the franchise, it went to shit.

>>23730451
a live action gundam was bound to happen anyway

>>23730506
Yeah in 1999.

>>23729965
Not that anon but you can find several interviews of Tomino complaining about the movie staff shutting him out and that the Director refuses to meet him. As to whether Tomino got Jordan fired, that's hard to verify. Thats behind the scenes stuff we will never know. So I can't verify what other anon said.

I did find an old Director Fukuda interview. He directed Gundam Seed. Fukuda said the Sunrise President told him that he needs meet Tomino and get his and blessing for making Gundam Seed. That getting Tomino's approval important because gundam fans support Tomino.

Sometimes I worry the movie will attract a new wave of normalfaggots to the franchise and ruin online discussion but then I remember that watching old anime and cel-animation is kryptonite to anime tourists so it probably doesnt matter how the movie turns out. Maybe it will be drawn into the culture war discourse and well get a few more hipsters pretending to be long time fans but thats it.

If it's just 08th ms team again I'm gonna make operation british look like a bakesale

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>>23729618
>Shut up Jordan. We know you browse /m/. You even stole some of our memes and shared it on your Twitter account.
Is this real? Can you post some examples?

>>23729670
Fraw Bow

They will probably make Ryu black.

Amuro some white non asian dude.

The little kids won't exist.

Fraw a black woman.

Kai some non-binary trans.

Only Char and Sayla will be probably accurate.

It will be shit.

>>23730968
qt black frau would be cute tho

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>>23729152
>netflix
It's going to be dogshit. Netflix demands that pictures it funds have shitty cripts meant for people on their phones. Lots of stating the obvious, reiterating those obvious points, and preventing any sort of nuance because people will miss it while they were scrolling on their phones. They also require that the climate of the film happens immediately because they don't want people jumping to another show. It just results it total dogshit writing that underlies dogshit movies.
https://www.worldofreel.com/blog/2026/1/17/matt-damon-says-netflix-demands-characters-announce-what-theyre-doing-just-in-case-viewer-is-busy-doing-something-else

>>23729670
Pray that it's some background character. Sweeny is a pair of tits with no acting ability.

>>23730535
There was an interview with some of the G Gundam staff where they mentioned going to Tomino for advice early on cause their only real direction was to make a spinoff series and they weren't sure how far to take it

I'll wonder if they'll incorporate gunpla into the production, get some perfect grades, have them painted up to the look they're going for, make some miniature sets and take a ton of reference photos for the CG guys to pull from.

>08th ms team adaptation
yeah it's DoA

They'll probably have Char fall in love with some magical diversity hire brown woman while she cucks him for some mystery meat guy with an afro to make the white germanic man seem pathetic
Wait a second...

>>23729152
Does anyone actually have hope for this?
I saw the headline and it got me thinking about when I saw the fallout show was in production, and I said to myself it was going to be terrible. When did that hap[pen? Movie or tv adaptations of things becoming something to dread rather than ancitipate

>>23730504
I don't know much about the sequel, but the Netflix animation was actually pretty good.

>>23732391
Well Edge of Tomorrow, Battle Angel Alita, and Speed Racer were great anime adaptions.

So there is hope it could turn out well.

>>23730968
Ryu was always Afro-Brazilian. He literally has an afro.

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What could have been~

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>>23732411
The problem with these Ai pictures is that it never properly adapts the cartoon uniforms to real life uniforms. It would never look like in live action. It's too cheap.

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>>23732404
>AI
Begone.

>>23730968
Ryu would've been a black or indigenous dude in the early Gunboy/Gunvoy stages.

>>23732415
Yeah, there are a ton of problems. On top of the uniforms not looking like real clothing, it misses a ton of details. It makes their heads too big, too. See if you can catch the shoops I had to make to get them looking even this decent.
Still, they give a decent idea of how the actors would fit the roles.
>>23732416
I draw, this is just easier for a shitpost, fuck off.

>>23729199
It went well, contrary to the point is the fact that it was dumped on DVD only in America and that didn't help its reputation for years.

>>23733081
I kind of appreciate that happening, because instead of having to go through torrent hell to watch it when I decided I wanted to, I just watched it on Youtube because no one cared that it had been uploaded by a rando.

I sincerely pray that anyone that wishes this thing actually ever comes out to be tortured in Hell for an eternity.

>>23733867
Sucks for you, Hell doesn't exist.

>>23729199
It's a pretty good movie all things considered.

>>23732906
Fuck off slopper.

>>23734013
Go back to scamming grandmas Ranjeet.

Btfo

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Well, that's weird. My totally on-topic post of fan-slop of qt black Frau Bow, as requested by this anon >>23730978, was deleted, but I wasn't banned or warned, so I must not have broken any rules. Since so many people enjoyed it, let me repost it in good faith.

>>23736801
she cute (would)
but would she notice the ceiling bird of the air raid siren to warn Amuro about

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>>23736801
The first version it completely fucked up on is kinda neat too.