Live-action Robotech Movie

[areaseven]

Meh. Harmony Gold should do the right thing and hire Roger Christian instead. Just look at his credentials.

[Hoptimus]

Alright alright. Enough trolling folks. Move on.

[Einherjar]

BEHIND CLOSED DOORS!

Just to save everybody's time, Nic Mathieu's name was added to the RINO slide. Here's last year's slide.

That's it. Totally worth the effort.

Edited February 18, 2013 by Einherjar

[azrael]

Unless they actually greenlight this flick, I'll go back into sleep mode. We still don't know how well Pacific Rim will do (Similar genre). Also going into play is WB's new CEO, Kevin Tsujihara. Jeff Robinov (WB's film/box-office chief) and Bruce Rosenblum (WB's TV chief) may decide to leave WB, which would probably further delay things. And considering the Highlander-remake just lost its director, names can be thrown but that doesn't mean they'll stick.

[taksraven]

Then a quick question. Do we know how long WB optioned this for? Is there a time limit at all?

[Keith]

Hell, it's been what, 6 years now?

[taksraven]

Many films have been in development hell for much longer, of course, but I don't think this will ever get made.....

[Zor Primus]

Unless they actually greenlight this flick, I'll go back into sleep mode. We still don't know how well Pacific Rim will do (Similar genre). Also going into play is WB's new CEO, Kevin Tsujihara. Jeff Robinov (WB's film/box-office chief) and Bruce Rosenblum (WB's TV chief) may decide to leave WB, which would probably further delay things. And considering the Highlander-remake just lost its director, names can be thrown but that doesn't mean they'll stick.

Ditto...why waste time with such a trivial piece of info anyway...we all know that in the end there will be no movie because of the global economic crisis.

When it comes to casting the next RT movie, they can cast this guy as Roy for sure:

Edited February 19, 2013 by Zor Primus

[azrael]

Then a quick question. Do we know how long WB optioned this for? Is there a time limit at all?

Normally? 10 years seems to be the rolling industry standard (Judging by movies like Fox's Daredevil (2003), Sony's Spiderman-franchise (2002-2007) and Amazing Spiderman (2012), Fox's X-Men-series (2000-2009, 2010-?). Most seem to have it for about 10 years, then the rights revert back to the originating party, if nothing is done. As in, you have 10 years to do something or else it reverts back to the originating owners. You can extend it after 10 years by making new products (i.e., make more movies). But that appears to be on the major-studios level. IIRC, Maguire Entertainment (Tobey Maguire's company) were the ones to acquired the license with WB on-board as the distribution studio. My feeling is if Maguire Ent. can't do something by 2017, WB will probably drop out, unless they want an extension. After which, Maguire Ent. can go to Disney, Sony, Fox, Paramount, etc. But again, that's just what I see and hear.

[EXO]

There's also this thing in Hollywood when they sign a new director, they attach projects to his/her name to create buzz. They choose the projects that best fit their reels or commercial so that there's a reason for the press release.

[Gubaba]

There's also this thing in Hollywood when they sign a new director, they attach projects to his/her name to create buzz. They choose the projects that best fit their reels or commercial so that there's a reason for the press release.

But WB has announced nothing about the director, right?

[EXO]

I believe the director is already making one movie and attached to this and another film. I'm not sure if there's an official release from WB about RT.

[azrael]

But WB has announced nothing about the director, right?

Have you seen this guy's resume? There isn't much to announce.

[Einherjar]

Have you seen this guy's resume? There isn't much to announce.

That makes me wonder why they would approach someone with that kind of background in the industry for this.

Also, is it just me, or does it seem like the people that have been approached to work on the RINO over the years have come and gone in a descending order of industry experience/reputation up to now? Judging by Nic Mathieu's resume, it seems like they've come to the point where they're getting just about anyone for it.

[EXO]

That makes me wonder why they would approach someone with that kind of background in the industry for this.

That's the point... when they get signed the publicity dept of the agency gives them a list of movies on the back burner to beef up the press release. Not saying it's exactly what happened here but it's the case most of the time. It's just like when they start or reboot a franchise, they release a statement saying it's been greenlit for a sequel before the movie is actually released, then you never hear another word from it or it gets rebooted again without addressing the last movie.

[ron5864]

Because of the legal issues, I wonder if this will be a continuation of where Shadow Chronicles left off.

[azrael]

Because of the legal issues, I wonder if this will be a continuation of where Shadow Chronicles left off.

What legal issues?

And no, we are not making this a legal debate thread. If you don't know, go read the pinned thread.

[UN Spacy]

Wow...that Memo guy had dozens of questions.

What a blow hard.

[Einherjar]

Because of the legal issues, I wonder if this will be a continuation of where Shadow Chronicles left off.

That's Shadow Rising. At this point some of us won't live long enough to see it.

[taksraven]

That's the point... when they get signed the publicity dept of the agency gives them a list of movies on the back burner to beef up the press release. Not saying it's exactly what happened here but it's the case most of the time. It's just like when they start or reboot a franchise, they release a statement saying it's been greenlit for a sequel before the movie is actually released, then you never hear another word from it or it gets rebooted again without addressing the last movie.

Yeah, I think that the "Film isn't out be we are greenlighting a sequel" is also a confidence building activity for the studio, trying to impress the potential audience by effectively saying "we want you to think that this film is so good and we are so confident with it that we are making another". I think such announcements were made for Tron 2 AND Green Lantern, but not much has happened since on either.....

[Gubaba]

Have you seen this guy's resume? There isn't much to announce.

Point.

[MechTech]

Let's look at this from the 50,000ft point of view. More people get "pulled" into the story and our fanbase grows. That probably means more merchandise and cool stuff to look forward to. Try and keep an open mind. On that note, hopefully this will be Maross based versus the Shadow Chronicles take off. I know HG left a bad tatse in everybody's mouth so to speak, but this might just turn out great. Time will tell! - MT

[slaginpit]

I would like to see a US Macross ie Robotech and nothing else. The story has enough material to make three movies. Its nicely sequenced and has a limited amount of mechs to make it successful budget wise. The characters are also full of dialogue so no issues there. Star Wars has shown that it can multi layer a lot of galactic ships with all sorts of pew pews in smaller fighters. The only difference the valks will transform. Again budget saving. Further The valks wont have to be complex tinfoil transformations ie transformers, more budget saving since the graphics department dont have to rewire their brains to figure out how to uncrumple tin foil in order to make something a robot.

Toys wise. NO. Not the US distributed ones. I would like to see TakTomy, Bandai and Arcadia jump on the bandwagon.

[reddsun1]

I would like to see a US Macross ie Robotech and nothing else. The story has enough material to make three movies. Its nicely sequenced and has a limited amount of mechs to make it successful budget wise. The characters are also full of dialogue so no issues there. Star Wars has shown that it can multi layer a lot of galactic ships with all sorts of pew pews in smaller fighters. The only difference the valks will transform. Again budget saving. Further The valks wont have to be complex tinfoil transformations ie transformers, more budget saving since the graphics department dont have to rewire their brains to figure out how to uncrumple tin foil in order to make something a robot.

Toys wise. NO. Not the US distributed ones. I would like to see TakTomy, Bandai and Arcadia jump on the bandwagon.

The Macross story's definitely suited for a trilogy. As long as they keep Roy in it until the middle of the 2nd movie. If they kill him off too quick, I'd say there ought to be violent revolt at HG corporate headquarters; torches, pitchforks, the works...

[slaginpit]

The Macross story's definitely suited for a trilogy. As long as they keep Roy in it until the middle of the 2nd movie. If they kill him off too quick, I'd say there ought to be violent revolt at HG corporate headquarters; torches, pitchforks, the works...

Well they always tweek things a bit to make it different. My thinking is they will probably choose not to kill off roy but probably Minmay and replace her with a clone. You how these things go

Edit OH SNAP what if they turn it into a musical

Edited February 21, 2013 by slaginpit

[Gubaba]

Alright alright. Enough trolling folks. Move on.

No offense intended, but do you patrol people being negative about other things, or just Robotech? Because, honestly, the "Pacific Rim" thread could use some patrolling now. Lots of negativity there.

[hellraizer]

do you think they can use the materials or design that was used in macross tv ?

[Dynaman]

do you think they can use the materials or design that was used in macross tv ?

You need to read the "concerning Harmony gold and robotech" thread pinned to the top of this forum for that.

[GU-11]

I'm genuinely curious to see how the new designs for the Valkyries Veritechs will look like. I mean, they will be updating the designs, won't they?

**edited for typos.

Edited February 22, 2013 by GU-11

[electric indigo]

I'm genuinely curious to see how the new designs for the Valkyries Veritechs will look like.

They will look like the fighters from "Stealth"...

Muahahaa...

[GU-11]

They will look like the fighters from "Stealth"...

Muahahaa...

Frankly, that won't surprise me one bit. In fact, I'd even expect them to cast Jessica Biel as Lisa Hayes, and have Jamie Foxx in drag play Claudia.

Edited February 22, 2013 by GU-11

[hellraizer]

I'm genuinely curious to see how the new designs for the Valkyries Veritechs will look like. I mean, they will be updating the designs, won't they?

**edited for typos.

what if they copied the style of valkyrie tranformation? they should also change the names of characters

[azrael]

what if they copied the style of valkyrie tranformation? they should also change the names of characters

Huh?

[GU-11]

Huh?

This recording has limited interactive capabilities. Please repeat the question.

Edited February 23, 2013 by GU-11

[taksraven]

No offense intended, but do you patrol people being negative about other things, or just Robotech? Because, honestly, the "Pacific Rim" thread could use some patrolling now. Lots of negativity there.