Robotech Ready To Fight

By George 'El Guapo' Roush on November 17, 2008

From the trades comes news for all of us adults who grew up watching the Robotech series on television:

Alfred Gough and Miles Millar have been drafted to pen "Robotech," Warner Bros.' adaptation of the anime classic.

Akiva Goldsman and Chuck Roven are producing with Tobey Maguire and Drew Crevello.

"Robotech" was a 1980s cartoon series from Harmony Gold USA and Tatsunoko Prods. 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.

A sprawling sci-fi epic, "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 an alien invasion, with the fate of the human race ending up in the hands of two young pilots.

Lawrence Kasdan wrote a previous draft. Warners is intent on keeping the project moving forward, and Gough and Millar bring action and geek cred to the table. The WMA-repped duo worked on "The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor" and "Spider-Man 2," among other films, and were showrunners on TV's "Smallville" for many years.

Frank Agrama of rights-holder Harmony Gold is executive producing "Robotech," as is Jason Netter.

Where's my Starblazers live action movie?

Source:The Trades

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• no life then Sun Dec 21 at 19:45 EST

  obviosouly you idiots have no idea robotech is one of the biggest sci fi anime series to ever of been created i've wathced as long as i can remember and i can't wait for it to hit the screens as also niether can the other billion robotech fans!!!!

  Author: t. goode | Permalink

• Mon Nov 17 at 23:45 EST

  Also mid-30s, and this wasn't a big series when I was growing up in the 1980s in the UK; at least not like Transformers or those other shows. Don't really care much about this.

  Author: avoidz | Permalink

• Fellow Micronians..... Mon Nov 17 at 20:36 EST

  Lets just hope whomever scripts Robotech is a big fan of the franchise and grew up watching Robotech.

  Author: Jeff G. | Permalink

• robo? Mon Nov 17 at 15:28 EST

  I'm in my mid 30's and dont remember this one..

  Author: 420band | Permalink

• Mon Nov 17 at 15:17 EST

  They passed on a script from the writer of Raiders of the Lost Arc, and will go with one from the writers of The Mummy 3. This project is toast.

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• Starblazers Mon Nov 17 at 13:53 EST

  They could never make a starblazers that could live up to the cartoon. I just can't see it.

  Author: Sean | Permalink

• Hey Guys Mon Nov 17 at 13:05 EST

  How come you guys havent scored the script from this project yet we need you guys to review theres already 2 scripts for Robotech floatign around lets get to it guys lol

  Author: Jorge Santos | Permalink

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