The long-gestating Gundam film has finally found a home.<\/p>\n
Deadline<\/a> reports that Netflix is on board to the distribute the film, with Sydney Sweeney (The Housemaid) and Noah Centineo (Black Adam) set to star.<\/p>\n Jim Mickle (\u201cSweet Tooth,\u201d Stake Land) is writing and directing, based on Yoshiyuki Tomino\u2018s revered Japanese anime franchise.<\/p>\n Legendary co-developed the project with franchise owner Bandai Namco Filmworks. Mickle will produce with Linda Moran under their Nightshade banner.<\/p>\n Plot details are under wraps. Gundam is known pioneering the \u201creal robot\u201d mecha genre, depicting giant robots \u2014 governed by realistic physics and technological limitations \u2014 within a militaristic setting.<\/p>\n Deadline notes,\u00a0\u201cGundam is set in the Universal Century, a future where humanity has colonized space. When a rebellion erupts between Earth and its colonies, the ensuing conflict is fought by pilots in massive mechanized contraptions known as mobile suits.<\/p>\n \u201cThe long-running multimedia franchise launched with series the \u2018Mobile Suit Gundam\u2019 in 1979. Since then, the internationally renowned Yoshiyuki Tomino-created endeavor has spanned 83 animated series and movies, in addition to a lucrative merchandising arm that generates $600 million annually.\u201d<\/p>\n Legendary first announced its development of a Gundam film back in 2021. Jordan Vogt-Roberts (Kong: Skull Island) was attached to direct but is no longer involved.<\/p>\n Sweeney\u2019s upcoming projects also include The Housemaid sequel The Housemaid\u2019s Secret<\/a> and Edgar Wright\u2019s Barbarella<\/a> remake.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The long-gestating Gundam film has finally found a home. Deadline reports that Netflix is on board to the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":395899,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,148600,148601,2839,45984,9298,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-395898","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-gundam","10":"tag-jim-mickle","11":"tag-movies","12":"tag-noah-centineo","13":"tag-sydney-sweeney","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395898\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}