{"id":345981,"date":"2026-03-24T22:09:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T22:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/345981\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T22:09:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T22:09:09","slug":"spider-mans-michael-mando-slips-into-netflixs-gundam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/345981\/","title":{"rendered":"Spider-Man&#8217;s Michael Mando slips into Netflix&#8217;s Gundam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After nearly a half-century of mech suit battles on the long-running anime franchise Mobile Suit Gundam and its many spin-offs, Netflix is taking another stab at a live-action Gundam. The streamer is currently planning to shoot its long-awaited adaptation of the sci-fi epic in April in Australia, and it\u2019s bringing in an actor well-versed in wearable weaponry: Michael Mando. <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2026\/03\/gundam-movie-cast-adds-michael-mando-1236764235\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Per Deadline,<\/a> Mando, who stars as Scorpion in the upcoming <a href=\"https:\/\/www.avclub.com\/spider-man-brand-new-day-trailer\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Spider-Man: Brand New Day<\/a>, will be slipping into another CGI mecha for the film. He\u2019ll be joining a who\u2019s who of potential Amuro Rays or Char Aznables, including fellow Netflix star Noah Centineo, Oppenheimer\u2018s Jason Clarke, and an actor no one has opinions about, Sydney Sweeney.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s no release date for the film, which has been in development since at least 2018, when Legendary Pictures announced the project. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.avclub.com\/a-live-action-gundam-movie-is-coming-written-by-br\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Originally, comics writer Brian K. Vaughn<\/a>, who created Y: The Last Man and Saga, was hired to write. Then, Legendary hired Sweet Tooth showrunner to write and direct. That\u2019s still the case. This isn\u2019t the first live-action Gundam movie. In 1999, the Canadian made-for-TV movie G-Saviour took the Great White North by storm and still looks great today.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After nearly a half-century of mech suit battles on the long-running anime franchise Mobile Suit Gundam and its&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":345982,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[156,409,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-345981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=345981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/345982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}