Macross73 Posted September 7, 2007 Posted September 7, 2007 holy cow. WTF. just not sure how to feel about this. Spidey as Rick
Twoducks Posted September 7, 2007 Posted September 7, 2007 (edited) This thread is going to be fun I know HG would get ass raped if they did any valks (right?), but can they do the Macross story? It's pretty similar to SDF M *edit* No mention of Minmay in the plot sumary? Even Robotech had that as an important part of the story. Edited September 7, 2007 by Twoducks
eugimon Posted September 7, 2007 Posted September 7, 2007 wow, tobey maguire as rick hunter? yeah, I can see that. That's a pretty good fit. If this is true, I'm pretty darn happy/excited, robotech or not. Do we have any other sites confirming this? I don't see anything on my usual go to sites like darkhorizons or cinematical.
MEMO1DOMINION Posted September 7, 2007 Posted September 7, 2007 Do we have any other sites confirming this? http://www.superheroflix.com/news/67/22567.php http://www.iesb.net/index.php?option=com_c...5&Itemid=99 http://www.movieweb.com/news/67/22567.php
eugimon Posted September 7, 2007 Posted September 7, 2007 http://www.superheroflix.com/news/67/22567.php http://www.iesb.net/index.php?option=com_c...5&Itemid=99 http://www.movieweb.com/news/67/22567.php right on, thanks for the links. Honestly, i can't wait. Would I prefer Macross to Robotech? Sure, of course I would. But honestly another big sci-fi franchise to get a major push can only mean good things. And frankly, I'm a fan of tobey and if he's going to ditch the webs for a valkyrie, oops, veritech, so much the better.
Twoducks Posted September 7, 2007 Posted September 7, 2007 *Inset god* bless Transformers the Movie for opening up the way for more robot goodness. Even if the story is meh we can expect some delicious eye candy from WB.
MEMO1DOMINION Posted September 7, 2007 Posted September 7, 2007 TRY ALSO HERE...PEOPLE ARE AWAKE RIGHT NOW... http://www.robotech.com/community/forum/re...genumber=1#post
Dante74 Posted September 7, 2007 Posted September 7, 2007 Well, at least WB got the rights and not Uwe Boll.
UN Spacy Posted September 7, 2007 Author Posted September 7, 2007 Where's A7 when you need him? If he doesn't handle casting I'll be extremely disappointed.
Macross73 Posted September 7, 2007 Posted September 7, 2007 as long as they don't mess with the design of the Valks this might be tolerable NO Bay-Formers
valkyrie13 Posted September 7, 2007 Posted September 7, 2007 Any chance that Kawamori Shoji can be brought on board?
valkyrie13 Posted September 7, 2007 Posted September 7, 2007 as long as they don't mess with the design of the Valks this might be tolerable They will have to unless the battle for the IP rights is miraculously resolved prior to production...
MEMO1DOMINION Posted September 7, 2007 Posted September 7, 2007 LOOKING AT TRANSFORMERS... "THE LIVE ACTION MOVIE" AND THIS IS ONE BIG QUESTION I HAD...HOW MUCH OF AN 'UPGRADE" WILL IT ALL HAVE? ON DESIGNS...TO MAKE IT MORE.. TODAYS TIME ACCEPTABLE. TRANSFORMERS...CARS WERE UPGRADED AND TRANSFORMATION. STORY FOLLOWED THE SAM EBASIC RULE BUT DIFFERENT AT THE SAME TIME. IT HAD TO APPEAL ACROSS THE BOARD. NOT JUST TRANSFORMERS FANS. THEY DID HAVE TO MAKE THEIR MONEY AND THEN SOME BACK.
Guppy Posted September 7, 2007 Posted September 7, 2007 wow.. first though was "it will be trapped forever in Development Hell" second thought was once I got past my initial rancor, the CG possibilities in this day and age could make for some awesome scenes. I will have more hope for it if HG has no creative part in its development.
Legioss Posted September 7, 2007 Posted September 7, 2007 Kill it with nuclear fire. It is an abomination that should not be. On the other hand, this will make it easier to sell off what's left of my Robotech crap.
thegunny Posted September 7, 2007 Posted September 7, 2007 Hope they use all the Macross songs and not just that crap that Minmay sings all the way through Robotech. Hey MEMO1DOMINION ease up on the caps you don't have to yell at everyone
yellowlightman Posted September 7, 2007 Posted September 7, 2007 I'll believe it when I see production pictures.
ShadowerV2 Posted September 7, 2007 Posted September 7, 2007 Spidey as Rick Hunter? Check out the new SDF-1!
Roy Focker Posted September 7, 2007 Posted September 7, 2007 Wow is this real? Well Tobey is old enough to be a old time Robotech fan. Spiderman = Success. Transformers = Success. Spiderman + Transformers = Super Sucking Ass Success that should make money!
1/1 LowViz Lurker Posted September 7, 2007 Posted September 7, 2007 (edited) I'm worried and excited at the possibilities at the same time. I want the dogfights to be like that of the scenes in transformers where starscream transforms from robot to plane and back again while flying in the air shooting down other planes. But I get this feeling in my gut that something might go horribly wrong. Some of the things that happen in macross, like rick/hikaru opening the canopy of his plane to rescue minmay from falling is too crazy for a realistic movie. It belongs in anime. But given that TF got away with a lot of strange stuff (sliding on yo ass to shoot a robot in the nuts to kill it with a tiny machine gun) I think it might not turn out so bad. Everyone here hates robotech. If this movie were to take off, can you imagine what would happen when the toys come out and little kids break their toynami's just by opening the box and this leads to the destruction of harmony gold? That would be awesome. No more threats from HG to stop people buying yamato valks. (I kid I kid. I actually think the 1/100 macross vf-1 by toynami aren't so bad actually) Edited September 7, 2007 by 1/1 LowViz Lurker
Renato Posted September 7, 2007 Posted September 7, 2007 I want at least Itano in this. His choreography is excellent. And the designs better be good. It's a shame that Kawamori's plans for a movie were shelved in 1996. And I wonder what they're gonna do for music?
1/1 LowViz Lurker Posted September 7, 2007 Posted September 7, 2007 (edited) I wonder how the hell the ride armor is going to look in a movie as when it transforms there are bits that float in the air that disconnect themselves. These kinds of things are on the same concern level as "how are they going to solve the mass shifting problem of the transformers cartoon when megatron grows and shrinks from giant robot to tiny little gun?" I predict some changes will have to be made to designs for audiences to take it seriously whether a fan is going to like the change or not. Maybe they could get SK to redesign the VF-1 for the live action movie? Upgrade the VF-1 so it looks different and won't clash anymore with macross Valkyries? Then HG can make that design the official Veritech design and scrap the older one, making the live action one the official canon "veritech" from the first robotech war? I think the word "robotech" sounds cheesy for a movie to be honest, just like "robocop". But it's that very cheese that might attract the nostalgiac fans, in the same way some of the cheesy stuff from G1 (the anime magic that goes into growing and shrinking robots) is missed by fans of the original. (as well as certain styles unique to the original like simplistic blocky bodies) Edited September 7, 2007 by 1/1 LowViz Lurker
Mr March Posted September 7, 2007 Posted September 7, 2007 If I were a Robotech fan I'd be very, VERY worried that this film is going to be treated like junk by a Hollywood production company. The Robotech/Macross property is ripe for a dose of hardcore cheese and an Itano Circus of plot/character/setting "adjustments." If the Zentradi actually remain giant-sized in the final script, if music remains part of the central plot and if the Valkyries aren't redesigned to look like utter trash, it'll be a bloody miracle.
1/1 LowViz Lurker Posted September 7, 2007 Posted September 7, 2007 Yeah I dunno... I really just don't know. But I do hope it doesn't suck despite it being robo-(can't say it too many times or the forum will explode) because I liked the bits in TF with the planes.
Renato Posted September 7, 2007 Posted September 7, 2007 http://people.monstersandcritics.com/news/...ires_robot_role "Tobey Maguire is set to play a giant robot in his new movie." BWAHAHAHAH!! Nice research, guys.
TheLoneWolf Posted September 7, 2007 Posted September 7, 2007 wow.. first though was "it will be trapped forever in Development Hell"... You mean "it will be trapped forever in Legal Hell" if Harmony Gold wants to use any of the mecha from the Macross saga. I've always been of the opinion that HG owns the merchandising rights to the mecha (ie: video games, comics, posters, toys) but they don't own the film rights to the mecha, meaning they can't include them in any new tv or movie productions. They get a bye on character rights since they'll be using real people instead of anime characters. If Harmony Gold is serious about this, they'll have to redesign all the mecha designs from Macross so that they're indistinguishable from the line art (hello bayformers!) or they'll just substitute the Macross mecha with Mospeada mecha since their Mospeada rights are irrefutable. Maybe we should merge this thread with the HG legal thread?
Apollo Leader Posted September 7, 2007 Posted September 7, 2007 I can just see the theme song for the Tobey Maguire Robotech movie... Rick Hunter, Rick Hunter, doing the best a Rick Hunter can... Guess we'll see what happens with the Macross related designs since they are owned by Studio Nue/Big West and they haven't been exactly playing ball with Harmony Gold/Tatsunoko as of late.
JsARCLIGHT Posted September 7, 2007 Posted September 7, 2007 If this plane gets out of the hangar I'll be shocked. Lots of projects get greenlit for development... only a handful ever make it past that stage. Anyone remember all the press releases and stories in fan magazines about the WB and the Watchmen movie development back in the mid nineties that had Joel Silver to helm it with his pick of Arnold Schwarzenegger for Dr. Manhattan? That got really far.
bsu legato Posted September 7, 2007 Posted September 7, 2007 So now it's a race between this and the supposed Voltron movie to see who'll suck the most. Whoever wins, we lose.
NeoverseOmega Posted September 7, 2007 Posted September 7, 2007 Well, at least it's not Uwe Boll. Although McGuire productions? My hope is that he's enough of a fan to at least TRY to get something true to the better elements of Robotech (as much as I would rather see Macross, there is still a little part of me that thinks with a decent writer Robotech actually has potential as a space opera - of course that's probably far too much to ask) Of course there is only so much it can resemble the original - good lord, can you picture Tobey with a thirty pound mass of plaster Hikaru hair? Lisa with cast iron cinnamon hair buns? And if they do Zentraedi I'm hoping they have at least a half decent explanation of why they look like us - people are less likely to buy fully humanoid aliens now that it's really not necessary to do the StarTrek thing. I can take a little cheese in the dialog (I'm expecting it) I'm just hoping the whole conceit doesn't come of as so ridiculous that it would be difficult to watch without a red face. Ironically, when I was a kid I would have prayed for something like this- now I'm just hoping for gouda as opposed to rancid, chunky, smelly cheese. Still, theoretically, they could have some cool CG if the pockets are deep enough. I hope someone at ILM owes Tobey a favor, I would love to see CG valkyries if they are done well and at the very least an honest homage to the original. My fingers are crossed for gouda.
NeoverseOmega Posted September 7, 2007 Posted September 7, 2007 Well, I did a little research on the writer they tapped and it gives me some little glimmer of hope. Apparently he has some acclaim as having written the best un-produced script in Hollywood right now (The Brigands of Rattleborge) which is apparently an adaptation of a Vertigo title. I'm not sure who makes this kind of decision (if it's studio execs I might be frightened) but at least his selection makes me think that McGwire entertainment really wants this to be a well written script. Of course those of you who know more about Hollywood and such things as this little black list of the best scripts will undoubtedly enlighten us - do we have reason for hope or is this a silly accolade?
The Shade Posted September 7, 2007 Posted September 7, 2007 Somehow, I can just imagine how cheesy it's going to look when we see the Macross transform and use the Daedalus maneuver to destroy a ship. It may work in animation, but live action will just look silly. "Daedalus Attack!"
Mr March Posted September 7, 2007 Posted September 7, 2007 Which is why a transforming SDF-1 Macross is likely to be the first thing axed for the movie. I have my doubts the script will even get the characters off-world. I can just see Space War I (another name ripe for "modification") taking place entirely on Earth. I can tell you one thing that will be changed without doubt: there's no way Britai's Nupetiet-Vergnitzs Fleet Command Battleship ever makes it to the screen. No Hollywood studio is going to make a film with a giant phallus as the enemy space craft. Puritans in the US will see to it that visual never makes it to the big screen.
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