| 📒 | - Netflix live action movie Gundam begins filming in Australia - Original story dealing with Earth and space colonies - Euphoria Sydney Sweeney and Street Fighter Noah Centineo are the main characters |
On the 21st, Netflix announced Crankin, a live-action feature film from the Mobile Suit Gundam series, which began airing on TV in 1979. It is reported that this filming took place in Queensland, Australia, and actors and production teams gathered together.
This live-action Gundam film tells the story of rival mecha pilots from different factions in a decades-long war between Earth and space colonies. Through official materials, Netflix expressed this movie as a 'brand-new story' and 'original story', predicting that it would depict a new story that is not a direct copy of existing Gundam works. However, to the extent that the Gundam IP was utilized, the cinematic-scale battle scenes handled with the advent of mobile suits and the drama between humans revealed in the horrors of war were also emphasized.
Meanwhile, the main character of this work will be played by Sidney Sweeney, one of the hottest stars in America in recent years. Sidney Sweeney, who made her name known through HBO's Euphoria, is currently actively building her filmography. Noah Centineo was cast as another main character who is expected to play a rival role with him. Noah Centineo emerged as a teen star through To All the Boys I've Loved Before, and is scheduled to lead the drama again as the main character after playing Ken in Street Fighter. In addition, the participation of Jason Isaacs, Jackson White, Jayvon Walton, Michael Mando, Shiori Kutsuna, and Nonso Anozie were revealed, but their detailed roles have not yet been revealed.
The film is co-produced by Legendary Pictures and Bandai Namco Filmworks and directed by Jim Mickle, who directed Carnival - Blood Feast, Cold in July, and the well-received Netflix drama Sweet Tooth: The Boy with the Antlers.
Netflix has been introducing a variety of Japanese content-based works. In particular, One Piece, in which original author Eiichiro Oda directly participated, was a global box office success, and Yu Yu Hakusho, led by a Japanese production team, also received good reviews. However, Cowboy Bebop and Death Note received much more disappointing reviews after their release. As the live-action TV movie G-Savior, which aired in 2000, has received harsh reviews, it seems that it will only be confirmed after the work is released whether the live-action movie Gundam will be another success story for Netflix following One Piece.
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