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2nd Gundam Hathaway Film Will Be Released in UK Cinemas This Autumn
posted on by Andrew Osmond
The film opened in Japan on January 30 and ranked at #1 after its first weekend. The film sold 511,500 tickets and earned 849,068,760 yen (about US$5.43 million) in its first three days. It was delayed from a planned 2025 release.
Bandai Namco Filmworks describes the second film's story:
In this latest installment, the film continues to follow Hathaway as he struggles between his unresolved feelings for Gigi and his mission aligned with MAFTY, Kenneth preparing for the suppression of MAFTY, and Gigi herself, whose presence will alter the course of both men's destinies in an intense space opera of drama, combat, and emotional complexity. The film arrives in theaters across Japan this winter and the United States at a date to be confirmed.
The main cast and most of the staff returned from the first film, but Yuichi Kuboki joined Takako Suzuki as a color key artist. Yoshinori Sayama (Macross Plus, Cowboy Bebop, Mobile Suit Gundam UC) is credited for display designs after contributing to the first film. Yoshihisa Ōyama is the new film's compositing director of photography, and Manabu Kamitōno directed the visual effects.
American R&B artist SZA's 2022 song "Snooze" serves as the opening theme song for the film. SennaRin will perform the insert song "ENDROLL" with Yōhei Kawakami of Alexandros.
The film project is a trilogy, and the second part had a working title of Kidō Senshi Gundam Senkō no Hathaway: San of Bright. The film's producer Ogata elaborated that the Japanese katakana characters "San" (サン) can be read as "sun" or "son." (The film's main character Hathaway Noa is the son of the character Bright Noa.) Ogata stated the second part would have some differences from Yoshiyuki Tomino's original novel series.
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