Live action movies for ROBOTECH and also VOLTRON!! (80's anime)

TommyHolly · 09-22-07, 02:00 AM

Yup thats right! I know there are a few of us ROBOTECH fans here on the site so I figured I'd tell you first. Toby MacGuire will be starring in the ROBOTECH movie. (I've liked him in alot of his movies so far) The executive producers will be Harmony Gold...the same people that produce all the true to art cartoons, video games, books, and website for ROBOTECH so I cant see them getting really far off the original storyline like Transformers. I hope they get someone that can actually sing to play "Minmei" (That was pretty much the worst thing about the actual show was her singing...ugh!)

As far as Voltron goes, all I know about that is the rights have been purchased to make a live action movie. I'm expecting a "Power Rangers" type plot and theme because Voltron was the basis for all those type shows where people in robots with powers come together to form one giant robot to kick somoe giant alien monster robeast's arse...

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Tyranos · 09-22-07, 02:11 AM

veritech fighters woot!

PhysX · 09-22-07, 07:56 AM

meh it has toby maguire, he did nothing for spiderman, im sure this movie will probably suck, good idea, bad actor. just my opinion though.

Roofles · 09-22-07, 10:09 AM

Well at least it should have pretty good production value. I think that as long as you made the atmosphere right for the movie it would be pretty good. The being 'anime' might turn a few more mainstream people off, but if you did it in a pretty dark fashion I think it would be pretty sweet. (Think BSG dark)

I think Toby did a decent job in the first two, I didn't like the third one as much.

FudgeNuggets · 09-22-07, 10:13 AM

I posted the Robotech thing in the Anime fan thread a few weeks ago. I don't see Tobey Maguire as Rick Hunter.

We've known about Voltron for some time. I've read the script, itis NOTHING like the animated TV show. You are dead WRONG about the Power Rangers thing. It takes place in a post-apocolyptic Earth where the Drule have destroyed nearly the whole planet. The Alliance doesn't exist. The King and Allura come to Earth via a potal in Mexico city and construct Voltron here on Earth out of scrap parts, they descibe the Blue lion as having the cockpit of an F16 for the head/coclkpit and steam shovel bucket for the jaws. All the characters are there, Keith,Sven, Lance, Hunk and Pidge except Hunk is black and Pidge is an orphaned computer wiz living on the streets. In fact they're all living on the streets. They're all freedom fighters except for Pidge...... That's all I'm going to say.... You can wait for the rest

iD10t · 09-22-07, 10:50 AM

Oh man, that Voltron plot sounds like it will be crap

Yay Robotech though! I need production art!!

TommyHolly · 09-22-07, 02:44 PM

Was there a plot/script for ROBOTECH? (it's all caps remember...heh heh)

FudgeNuggets · 09-22-07, 04:38 PM

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Originally Posted by TommyHolly

Was there a plot/script for ROBOTECH? (it's all caps remember...heh heh)

There may be, but I've not seen or read it yet.....

09-22-07, 02:00 AM	Thread Starter #1
TommyHolly Member Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Chicago	Live action movies for ROBOTECH and also VOLTRON!! (80's anime) Yup thats right! I know there are a few of us ROBOTECH fans here on the site so I figured I'd tell you first. Toby MacGuire will be starring in the ROBOTECH movie. (I've liked him in alot of his movies so far) The executive producers will be Harmony Gold...the same people that produce all the true to art cartoons, video games, books, and website for ROBOTECH so I cant see them getting really far off the original storyline like Transformers. I hope they get someone that can actually sing to play "Minmei" (That was pretty much the worst thing about the actual show was her singing...ugh!) As far as Voltron goes, all I know about that is the rights have been purchased to make a live action movie. I'm expecting a "Power Rangers" type plot and theme because Voltron was the basis for all those type shows where people in robots with powers come together to form one giant robot to kick somoe giant alien monster robeast's arse... HERE IS THE LINK --> http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/...bf89b0691d2011 __________________ sig deleted by muddocktor-take it up with the Admins
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09-22-07, 07:56 AM	#3
PhysX Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Calgary	meh it has toby maguire, he did nothing for spiderman, im sure this movie will probably suck, good idea, bad actor. just my opinion though.
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09-22-07, 10:09 AM	#4
Roofles Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Brew City	Well at least it should have pretty good production value. I think that as long as you made the atmosphere right for the movie it would be pretty good. The being 'anime' might turn a few more mainstream people off, but if you did it in a pretty dark fashion I think it would be pretty sweet. (Think BSG dark) I think Toby did a decent job in the first two, I didn't like the third one as much. __________________ Q6600 - 3.42 (380x9) 1.48V : IP35 Pro : 2x2GB OCZ Reaper HPC New GTX275 OC to come : HP w2207 X-Fi Platinum (Op Amp modded) : Audio Technica A500's Tuniq Tower 120 : Antec P182 Running: Windows 7 RC and Fedora 10 (PREEMPT_RT) "If science is the dispassionate pursuit of objective truth, then it stands to reason that mad science is the completely irrational pursuit of a nutty project that the rest of the world will never completely understand." -Popular Mechanics
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09-22-07, 10:13 AM	#5
FudgeNuggets Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Gone Racing	I posted the Robotech thing in the Anime fan thread a few weeks ago. I don't see Tobey Maguire as Rick Hunter. We've known about Voltron for some time. I've read the script, itis NOTHING like the animated TV show. You are dead WRONG about the Power Rangers thing. It takes place in a post-apocolyptic Earth where the Drule have destroyed nearly the whole planet. The Alliance doesn't exist. The King and Allura come to Earth via a potal in Mexico city and construct Voltron here on Earth out of scrap parts, they descibe the Blue lion as having the cockpit of an F16 for the head/coclkpit and steam shovel bucket for the jaws. All the characters are there, Keith,Sven, Lance, Hunk and Pidge except Hunk is black and Pidge is an orphaned computer wiz living on the streets. In fact they're all living on the streets. They're all freedom fighters except for Pidge...... That's all I'm going to say.... You can wait for the rest Last edited by FudgeNuggets; 09-22-07 at 01:19 PM.
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09-22-07, 10:50 AM	#6
iD10t Member Join Date: Jan 2003	Oh man, that Voltron plot sounds like it will be crap Yay Robotech though! I need production art!!
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09-22-07, 02:44 PM	Thread Starter #7
TommyHolly Member Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Chicago	Was there a plot/script for ROBOTECH? (it's all caps remember...heh heh) __________________ sig deleted by muddocktor-take it up with the Admins
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