Warner Brothers Pictures has picked up the rights to Robotech, which features giant robots known as mechas. It seems that Spider-Man star, Tobey Maguire is going to produce this through his Maguire Entertainment banner, and possibly star in, a live-action movie based on the Robotech TV series. But there has been no word nor any confirmation yet if he’d be playing Rick Hunter, Roy Fokker, or even Breetai.
Background:
Robotech was a cartoon series during the 1980s from Harmony Gold USA and Tatsunoko Productions. It was re-edited and re-dialogued to combine three Japanese anime series to give the producers enough episodes to air as a daily syndicated series.
Robotech takes place at a time when Earth has developed giant robots from the technology on an alien spacecraft that crashed on a South Pacific isle. Mankind is forced to use the technology to fend off three successive waves of alien invasions. The first invasion concerns a battle with a race of giant warriors who seek to retrieve their flagship’s energy source, known as “protoculture,” and the planet’s survival ends up in the hands of two young pilots.
via [SCI FI Wire]
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