Forum - View topicThe 1983 Hollywood Gundam movie that almost was
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Strike105
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Did a little search today, and found an interesting article in the results:
http://www.zimmerit.moe/when-gundam-came-to-hollywood/ The article's content was supposedly compiled from several sources connected with the canned project, including artist Syd Mead (Blade Runner, Turn A Gundam), Mead's manager Roger Servic, writer/director Chip Proser (Innerspace), and CGI effects artist John Whitney Jr. (The Last Starfighter, Westworld) The article features several pieces of art, storyboards, and page scans of a supposed first draft script, all of which highlight just how ambitious the project was, and how vastly different the Hollywood film would have been from the source material, had it been adapted. If everything in this article is legit, I can't imagine how the Gundam fandom and the series as a whole would be affected if the project saw fruition. Highlights: *The Hollywood version would be set in a Star Wars-esque universe with alien planets and lifeforms in addition to the space colonies. Earth is never mentioned. *Most of the film's effects were planned to be made using CGI, in a time long before the effects were commonplace, and before The Last Starfighter proved it was possible. *Zeon is renamed "Ziong", and it is not a military faction or nation, but a corporate empire headed by a sentient AI system with its own conscripted army, called "Legion". *Amuro would be renamed "Amaru" (which Proser admits was likely a mistake). *Char would be renamed "Sha". He would be Amaru's 13 year-old younger brother that would be brainwashed and conscripted by Ziong. He would also remain unmasked. *There would be no Newtypes, but "psychic headgear" would be present. *Mobile Suits would be massive 100-meter tall behemoths, as opposed to the much smaller 17-18 meter mechs seen in the series. Instead of having a normal-ish looking seated cockpit with controls and levers, they would be controlled through a kind of "pilot mimicry system" akin to the Mobile Trace System introduced in G Gundam many years later. *Gundam and Guncannon were to be the initial main protagonist mechs, and some new Gundam derivatives would be introduced later, including the Guntank, and two original mechs: Gunfighter and Gungrenadier. The only Ziong/Legion mechs would be Zaku II/"Zak" and Zak derivatives, including a very Dom-like "Heavy Weapons Zak". |
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nobahn
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There is a phrase used in Hollywood that goes something like: Many are optioned, but few are greenlit.
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Snomaster1
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I had no idea that Hollywood was going to do it's own version of "Gundam." Well,you learn something new every day. Before this,the only other attempt to bring "Gundam" to America was "Doozy Bots" and if what I've seen on Youtube is anything to go by,I don't think it would have lasted long. It's absolutely terrible and I can't imagine anyone with a functioning brain enjoying it. It's hard to imagine how Hollywood will try to do it's own version of "Gundam" but I think it could work,if it's done by good people. They did their own version of "Ghost in the Shell." It'll be interesting to see how "Gundam" is handled.
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CCTakato
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It's just so weird to me that Hollywood would even consider remaking an anime that hadn't even been released in the U.S. yet and would make such radically different changes to it. Usually remakes are done to cash in on a successful franchise but Gundam was non-existent over here then.
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