Nope, Bandai knew the movies were coming, and the TV series (despite the lose of the intro's & outro's) is a very important release. They would have caught more flack for not releasing it.
Besides, everyone know's HG is too busy setting themselves up for a huge financial fall when the new robotech series doesn't do well. They don't have time to mess with Megazone.
I can't image they'd try a sequel, so it must be a remake. Interesting, though I can't help but feel it'd be "Matrix'd" up, since the Matrix so shamelessly copied Megazone to begin with.
It's pretty much a safe bet Manga doesn't have the license anymore. At a recent convention, someone had asked another studio if they had the license, and they said a non-disclosed studio has it, and top 2, and will most likely wait until top 2 is finished to announce it. Take that as you will though.
A credible person? "Yeah, it was shite, but it paid the bills for a cuople months, and then I went back into complete & total obscurity" would have sufficed.
When they claim to have written a totally original story, throwing out the "gibberish" of the original scripts, and writing entire episodes from scratch? That sir is a load of bull. Especially when he's claiming his work to be superior to something he's never even seen.
I think it's officially on "backburner," so I'd be surprised at this point it it ever went past the planning stages. It shall most likely join its bretheren of the Sailor Moon, Dragon Ball, Starblazers, & Akira live action movies.
Amuro in space....that would be an awesome plot change, but it's probably just the night sky of kilimanjaro. And the Zeta looks just as awesome as I'd hoped, can't wait.
No, there will be a U.S. release, but if there's no, I'm tracking you down & making you pay! Though honestly, a Zeta movie box is one of those rare things I wouldn't mind paying R2 prices for, even if there isn't subtitles.
No one has seen it yet. The movie comes out on May 28. I am not at all happy with that release date, either. I was in Japan up until last Saturday and am very disappointed that they didn't release the movie just a week earlier!
That does suck, being so close to the release...hopefully the R2 DVD's will be like the R2 release for the 0079 movies, subtitled with a nice box.
The toughest decision is deciding on whether to pick up the domestic release, or the import.
-Domestic release will support gundam games in the U.S., but most likely have shitty dub voices.
-Import is slightly more expensive, but will have the original voices...
Bah, I hate these decisions!