Robotech is on the way!

[terry78]

James Wan is being tapped to helm.

http://news.yahoo.com/james-wan-cir...0aG5zBGNvbG8DYmYxBHBvcwMxBHZ0aWQDBHNlYwNzYw--

 

[Thundercrack85]

You know, it's funny because I never hear of Harmony Gold outside of the context of Robotech / Macross. Can't whoever owns Macross in Japan just buy the rights back?

 

[Octoberist]

I don't know how Harmony Gold stays in business. DVD sales?

Anyway, Wan is so busy that The Wrap's Jeff Snider said that WB wants Wan to do Aquaman right after The Conjuring 2, which might mean Robotech might to wait until 2019-2020. I don't know if Sony is willing to wait that long. It seems like they're fast tracking this, and have their own 'Star Wars/Space Opera' brand.

 

[TheVileOne]

Highly unlikely Wan is doing both Aquaman and Robotech. He will have to pick one over the other.

 

[TheVileOne]

I don't know how Harmony Gold stays in business. DVD sales?

Anyway, Wan is so busy that The Wrap's Jeff Snider said that WB wants Wan to do Aquaman right after The Conjuring 2, which might mean Robotech might to wait until 2019-2020. I don't know if Sony is willing to wait that long. It seems like they're fast tracking this, and have their own 'Star Wars/Space Opera' brand.

I think they have business involving a lot of foreign releases and stuff.

 

[Octoberist]

It's official: James Wan is set to direct Robotech (most likely after Aquaman. Expect it in 2020.)

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/james-wan-closes-deals-direct-799686

 

[TheVileOne]

Sony's slate for the next several years. Notice NO ROBOTECH:

Money Monster – 4/8/16
The Shallows – 6/24/16
Ghostbusters – 7/15/16
Patient Zero – 9/2/16
The Magnificent Seven – 9/23/16
Underworld 5 – 10/21/16
Passengers – 12/21/16
Jumanji – 12/25/16
The Dark Tower – 1/13/17
Resident Evil: The Final Chapter – 1/27/17
Bad Boys 3 – 2/17/17
Baby Driver – 3/17/17
Barbie – 6/2/17
Uncharted – 6/30/17
The Lamb – 12/8/17
Bad Boys 4 – 7/3/19

We aren't seeing Robotech any time soon. Why should I care that Wan will direct it in five years? A lot can happen in that time. Hard for me to believe he will stay attached that long.

 

[Steyin]

Sony's slate for the next several years. Notice NO ROBOTECH:

We aren't seeing Robotech any time soon.

Good, I hope it stays that way. This isn't going to be done properly in its current hands.

 

[Gabe99]

Sony Confirms 'CHARLIE'S ANGELS' Reboot, 'ROBOTECH' Flick, and More!

Also up on the confirmation slate was the live-action ROBOTECH film. We last heard from this film back in April of last year, when Wan was juggling the prospects of taking either that film on, or AQUAMAN and FURIOUS 8. FURIOUS 8 ended up going to STRAIGHT OUTTA COMPTON director F. Gary Gray, while Wan hopped on board the DCEU train with AQUAMAN. The latter film is slated for a July 2018 release date, so while Wan looks to be busy with that behemoth for the foreseeable future, it looks like Sony is willing to put ROBOTECH on the back burner until that film is done.

 

[Inhuman117]

can't wait to see The Mechs

 

[Octoberist]

I wonder if the Independence Day sequel is going to affect Robotech. Despite not having mechs (that we know of) ID4 2 shares the same idea of us reverse engineer and adapt our weapons/ships from alien tech.

 

[Steyin]

I wonder if the Independence Day sequel is going to affect Robotech. Despite not having mechs (that we know of) ID4 2 shares the same idea of us reverse engineer and adapt our weapons/ships from alien tech.

Yeah, after seeing the trailer for ID4-2 it definitely seemed like they were borrowing ideas from Robotech. Add to that that Stars Wars is back in full force (no pun intended), I'd rather they scrap this altogether. They had the perfect window years ago to do this and missed out, so in my eyes it's even more pointless now.

 

[Pink Ranger]

I think there is plenty of room in the market for Macross, ID4-2 and Star Wars, just like there's room for Batman and Captain America. There is enough that is distinct about Macross to merit turning it into a franchise, there is enough of a built-in fanbase to at least give it a market "floor" to launch from, and in many ways it deals with themes and people that are way more relatable to the average global citizen than either ID4 or Star Wars.

 

[TheVileOne]

We aren't seeing Robotech anytime soon anyway. It's not coming out until 2019 at the earliest.

 

[Pink Ranger]

We aren't seeing Robotech anytime soon anyway. It's not coming out until 2019 at the earliest.

By then, we'll have real-life mechs and it can be a documentary.

 

[Kaleb]

Robotech was added to Netflix over the weekend, been re watching season 1 again, currently on episode 18.

 

[Kaleb]

'It' Director Andy Muschietti to Tackle 'Robotech' for Sony
Hollywood has been trying to bring the mechas to the big-screen for over a decade with Sony picking up the rights in 2015. Sony previously courted James Wan to direct the potential franchise before the filmmaker committed to Aquaman.

The project has no writer but the studio expects to work with the Muschietti siblings to find someone to execute Andy Muschietti's filmmaker. The project is a high priority for the studio and it is moving quickly.

Sanford Panitch and Matthew Milam are overseeing for Columbia. David Hopwood is shepherding for Canton while Shannon Gaulding runs point for Hollywood Gang.

 

[OutOfBoose]

I still remember the epic theme music from the show.

 

[marcvader]

I'll believe this when they start shooting.

 

[SomeOldGuy]

I'll believe this when they start shooting.

Same.

 

[TheVileOne]

So much for James Wan. yeah, this movie is never happening.

They aren't going to give Andy Muschietti $200 million to direct a film adaptation for an anime that hasn't been that popular in over 30 years.

Also, it wouldn't come out until about 2019 at the earliest.

 

[writer0327]

So much for James Wan. yeah, this movie is never happening.

They aren't going to give Andy Muschietti $200 million to direct a film adaptation for an anime that hasn't been that popular in over 30 years.

Also, it wouldn't come out until about 2019 at the earliest.

I'm holding out hope Sony will figure this out. They desperately need to get another franchise under their belts....Spider-Man is all they seem to have working for them at the moment. Resident Evil and Underworld are done and they were never that big to begin with. Ghostbusters failed to resurrect. What else do they have? The Dark Tower? We'll see what that does. Jumanji? Who really cares?

I think Robotech, with the "right" cast, with Muschietti at the helm (a solid choice, IMO), with a good, solid budget and an airtight script, could end up hitting it big. It hasn't been popular for 30 years but it is beloved and remember the international market...

Don't try and tell the whole story. Tell the Macross Saga in three films.

 

[TheVileOne]

Sony's not exactly Marvel here. IMHO, Marvel is really the only studio out there right now that can turn untested or older and seemingly irrelevant properties in the marketplace like this into major blockbusters.

Yeah Paramount had success with Transformers in 2007 and turned it into a billion dollar movie franchise. But that success has now clearly waned in 2017 with The Last Knight.

Too bad Marvel Studios doesn't have the film rights for GI Joe, all the Hasbro/IDW properties, Thundercats, He-Man and Robotech

Also, you can't do Robotech for cheap. Look at what's happening right now at Sony with projects like The Dark Tower. $60 million budget and 95-minute running time.

Robotech, for all its flaws, is an interstellar space epic. It's a scifi space opera. It has giant robots, giant alien monsters called the Zentraedi, a giant interstellar battleship the SDF-1 that can transform into a giant robot; the inside of which is a mobile city that is home to all the stranded civilians of Macross City. Robot mecha battles. Plus there's the weirder concepts like protoculture and such. And then you have other alien races like the Invid and the Robotech Masters. You have large scale battles with these high-tech mecha and the Zentraedi fleet both on the ground of planets and in space. Not to mention a fairly large cast of characters, even if you focus on the main central cast.

You can't do a movie on that for nothing less than $150 million.

Pacific Rim - a movie about a paramilitary defense force fighting giant monsters with giant robots on Earth cost $180 million
Edge of Tomorrow - a movie about a paramilitary defense force that uses armored exo-suits to fight a race of alien invaders that can control time cost $178 million
Transformers - the first movie cost $150 million in 2007 and certain crew members took a pay cut so it could get made on a more reasonable budget.

So if you want to translate just SOME of those above elements I mentioned, it will not be cheap. But best of luck to Muschietti to give it a shot.

Just remember, none of these reports mean that Tom Rothman is going to give him the green light unless he likes his pitch and the budget.

 

[writer0327]

Sony's not exactly Marvel here. IMHO, Marvel is really the only studio out there right now that can turn untested or older and seemingly irrelevant properties in the marketplace like this into major blockbusters.

Yeah Paramount had success with Transformers in 2007 and turned it into a billion dollar movie franchise. But that success has now clearly waned in 2017 with The Last Knight.

Too bad Marvel Studios doesn't have the film rights for GI Joe, all the Hasbro/IDW properties, Thundercats, He-Man and Robotech

Aw man, I TOTALLY agree and wish Marvel had ALL of those series. I'd dance a jig if that ever happened.

Transformers outstayed its welcome by one film in my opinion. This is the reason why these studios need a bunch of different franchises, because they end up doing the few that they have to death. By the end of their run, the entire world is just sick to death of them. For some reason F&F seems to avoid this, but Pirates, Terminator and Transformers falls into this every time.

 

[writer0327]

Also, you can't do Robotech for cheap. Look at what's happening right now at Sony with projects like The Dark Tower. $60 million budget and 95-minute running time.

Robotech, for all its flaws, is an interstellar space epic. It's a scifi space opera. It has giant robots, giant alien monsters called the Zentraedi, a giant interstellar battleship the SDF-1 that can transform into a giant robot; the inside of which is a mobile city that is home to all the stranded civilians of Macross City. Robot mecha battles. Plus there's the weirder concepts like protoculture and such. And then you have other alien races like the Invid and the Robotech Masters. You have large scale battles with these high-tech mecha and the Zentraedi fleet both on the ground of planets and in space. Not to mention a fairly large cast of characters, even if you focus on the main central cast.

You can't do a movie on that for nothing less than $150 million.

Pacific Rim - a movie about a paramilitary defense force fighting giant monsters with giant robots on Earth cost $180 million
Edge of Tomorrow - a movie about a paramilitary defense force that uses armored exo-suits to fight a race of alien invaders that can control time cost $178 million
Transformers - the first movie cost $150 million in 2007 and certain crew members took a pay cut so it could get made on a more reasonable budget.

So if you want to translate just SOME of those above elements I mentioned, it will not be cheap. But best of luck to Muschietti to give it a shot.

Just remember, none of these reports mean that Tom Rothman is going to give him the green light unless he likes his pitch and the budget.

I was thinking $150M as the budget for the first film. If we follow the Macross saga, most of the first film would be character building, probably ending with "Bye Bye Mars".