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If anyone from Bandai reads this, we Americans want the live action movie to be Gundam Wing, with Mr. Sumisawa, the creator of Gundam Wing to be executive producer

gokira2012 wrote:

If anyone from Bandai reads this, we Americans want the live action movie to be Gundam Wing, with Mr. Sumisawa, the creator of Gundam Wing to be executive producer

I think the movie will be based on Wing, just because there's three adult females Sydney Sweeney could play right away, Unne, Noin and Po. There are some in Universal Century, but way more spread out and wouldn't have as much presence in a first movie. But it could be an entirely original story too. Also it's Hollywood. We just had a female Silver Surfer so... who knows.

The writer Brian K. Vaughn is well versed in Universal Century, so it might be a Universal Century story or take heavy cues from it. Ultimately After Colony isn't too different, just no Newtypes and the story is told through more of a Zeon / Spacenoid / Space Colonist lens. Guess we'll see.

Sumisawa executive producing, I mean things like that are usually an afterthought and they are kind of ignored. Like Toriyama's involvement in Dragon Ball Evolution. Yeah... Or Watanabe giving notes on Netflix Cowboy Bebop and also being ignored. Even with Oda executive producing the Netflix One Piece series, they went against his wishes which he openly complained about. But since the series is a hit his complaints fell away. I think that was a rare occasion where it was right to ignore his specific complaints, but that's just me.

I mean hey sure I'm definitely fine with Sumisawa getting another check and all that but I don't think it will make a big difference. They're going to do whatever they are going to do.

If anyone from Bandai reads this, we Americans want the live action movie to be Gundam Wing, with Mr. Sumisawa, the creator of Gundam Wing to be executive producer

The writer Brian K. Vaughn is well versed in Universal Century, so it might be a Universal Century story or take heavy cues from it. Ultimately After Colony isn't too different, just no Newtypes and the story is told through more of a Zeon / Spacenoid / Space Colonist lens. Guess we'll see.

Sumisawa executive producing, I mean things like that are usually an afterthought and they are kind of ignored. Like Toriyama's involvement in Dragon Ball Evolution. Yeah... Or Watanabe giving notes on Netflix Cowboy Bebop and also being ignored. Even with Oda executive producing the Netflix One Piece series, they went against his wishes which he openly complained about. But since the series is a hit his complaints fell away. I think that was a rare occasion where it was right to ignore his specific complaints, but that's just me.

I mean hey sure I'm definitely fine with Sumisawa getting another check and all that but I don't think it will make a big difference. They're going to do whatever they are going to do.

I mean hey sure I'm definitely fine with Sumisawa getting another check and all that but I don't think it will make a big difference. They're going to do whatever they are going to do.

Are you just tossing Sumizawa's name out there because he's attached to Wing, or do you actually want him involved? Sounds like you just want the guy to be paid for something.

I mean Sumisawa did come up with the concept for Gundam Wing, write the outline for the entire series, and wrote the scripts for the first 26 episodes, then came back to write the final episode, and all of Endless Waltz, as well as the manga retelling of the series, as well as the sequel novels, as well as the current prequel manga, so Sumisawa for lack of a better word, is the Akira Toriyama of Gundam Wing, or Toyotaro depending on your POV, and he also has a great relationship with Tomino

Regarding Oda, it would take me a while to find the source but early on Oda did complain about the character who the Going Merry was based on dying and he didn't want changes made from the manga at all. He pretty much wanted a 1 to 1 adaptation as close as humanly possilbe. There's a video with the director of live action One Piece where he says, paraphrasing, that 1 to 1 adaptations are boring to people who already familiar with the source material. I don't disagree that Oda may have saved the production in some ways, but I don't think it was his way or the highway either. Which I don't think will ever happen with any of these Hollywood anime productions.

Sumisawa? Sure I want him to get paid. I want everyone to get paid. Money all around. Honestly, do I want him involved though? I don't know. Lately, if you read Frozen Teardrop, Glory of the Losers or watch Yashahime, he has a way of working these days where he dumps stuff on you and then gets around to explaining it later. Or, dropping info bombs on you, explaining it later or not bothering to explain it. I like his work, used to it at this point but I don't know how much of an American audience is ready for it. But, depends on his involvement.

But no, he's far from being a "Toriyama" for Gundam Wing, sorry. You're completely dismissing all of the other staff who fashioned the worldview outside of him. He's not the "God of Gundam Wing." Also, you're kinda overstating his relationship with Tomino.

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gokira2012 wrote:

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Nothing in what you quoted really exemplifies a "great" relationship, sorry. Sounds like a typical interaction with Tomino, no matter what the project. I mean, other creatives have stated almost the same thing Sumizawa has (right down to the "nothing I wrote ended up in the final product).

fair enough, but every piece of Gundam Wing material has his name on it

and I would 100% say Sumisawa is the God of Gundam Wing or the Toriyama of Gundam Wing because he wrote the Gundam Wing: Glory of Losers Manga, which is more canon than the series

What banana logic do you subscribe to? Please, show me (and everyone else here) some concrete proof where it's stated that the Glory of Losers manga is somehow "more canon" than the television series.

because it's Sumisawa's original vision for Gundam Wing

Katsuyuki Sumisawa did create the story for Mobile Suit Gundam Wing as the series' primary writer and series composition lead. He is credited with scripting the anime, developing its narrative, characters, and plot arcs during a one-week conceptualization phase with the team, and handling the challenges of weaving together its themes of war, peace, and the five Gundam pilots.

The way anime and tv shows work is while a movie is the vision of the director, TV is the vision of the writer, sure he had writers under him, just like TV shows have a writer's room, but they helped bring Mr. Sumisawa's vision to life. This is also why he says Gundam Wing is most rep. of his work, because usually he had just adapted someone else's vision.

He had to create new characters and a new scenario, while keeping with Mr. Tomino's general concept of mobile suits, space colonys and war with earth.