Gundam Movie Update

The live-action Gundam movie has started production, Netflix has announced. We besides person a afloat formed uncover and basal crippled details from the streamer.

Production kicked disconnected successful Queensland, Australia, with a formed led by Sydney Sweeney of The Housemaid and Euphoria fame, and Noah Centineo, who is caller from playing Ken Masters successful the upcoming Street Fighter film. Jason Isaacs, who played Lucius Malfoy successful the Harry Potter films, Captain Gabriel Lorca successful Star Trek: Discovery, and Timothy Ratliff successful The White Lotus, is besides successful the movie.

Here’s the authoritative blurb from Netflix:

Directed by Jim Mickle (Sweet Tooth, Cold successful July), the highly anticipated adaptation of the influential multimedia franchise volition prima Sydney Sweeney and Noah Centineo successful a brand-new communicative acceptable successful the midst of a lengthy abstraction war. Of course, determination volition beryllium elephantine robots (aka mechs) progressive — arsenic good arsenic a formed that includes actors from The White Lotus, Deadpool & Wolverine, Dune: Part Three, and galore more.

And here’s an aboriginal statement of the film, courtesy of Netflix:

The forthcoming live-action escapade movie volition bring the defining mech franchise to beingness with an archetypal communicative that follows rival mech pilots warring connected other sides of decades-long warfare betwixt Earth and its abstraction erstwhile colonies. “As shifting allegiances and a increasing menace acceptable them connected a collision people for 1 another, they’re pulled into a high-stakes contention crossed the stars that could specify the destiny of humanity. With awe-inspiring battles, intimate quality emotion, and an epic cinematic scale, this is Gundam similar it’s been seen before.”

Live-action Gundam movie cast:

• Sydney Sweeney (The Housemaid, Euphoria)
• Noah Centineo (Street Fighter, Warfare)
• Jackson White (Tell Me Lies)
• Shioli Kutsuna (Deadpool & Wolverine)
• Nonso Anozie (Sweet Tooth)
• Michael Mando (Better Call Saul)
• Javon “Wanna” Walton (Under the Bridge)
• Oleksandr Rudynskyi (The Agency)
• Ida Brooke (Dune: Part Three)
• Gemma Chua-Tran (Heartbreak High)
• Jason Isaacs (The White Lotus).

The characters the formed play stay a enigma for now, and there’s nary merchandise model yet for the Gundam movie.

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