Hold the phone folks, Hollywood is soon to crush another of my fond childhood memories. It’s long been known (almost 2 months!) that Toby McGuire had purchased the rights to the movie. Just picturing Toby in a wild Rick Hunter wig with matching helmet, vaulting into a Speed Raceresque, video game like movie where all of the Zentraedi are portrayed by out of work Orcs from the LOTR series makes me want to vomit on my Minmei records. I swear Hollywood execs, if you tap Mathew Fox to play Roy, I’ll have to take a drive out there and bitch slap you myself.
There is always a very small chance that this will get pulled off into the right direction, some how survive the execs in the movie industry and actually come out as a live action gem worth seeing at $12 a pop in the theater. I’m not holding my breath for this but damn, if that did happen then I’d be driving out to the west coast to kiss a few people. Kasdan has done some neat stuff in the past (Empire Strikes Back anyone?) but faith in Hollywood I no longer have though, so I’ll continue to grumble. Here’s the Routers article – interesting to note that they call this ‘fantasy’ and not ‘science fiction’:
Veteran screenwriter Lawrence Kasdan has been hired to write “Robotech,” Warner Bros.’ adaptation of the anime classic.
“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 three successive waves of alien invasions.
“Robotech” extends Kasdan’s return to the fantasy genre that began in 2007, when he was tapped to pen the “Clash of the Titans” remake for Warners and Thunder Road.
Kasdan wrote the screenplays for “The Empire Strikes Back,” “Return of the Jedi” and “Raiders of the Lost Ark” before penning more intimate ensemble dramas such as “The Big Chill” and “Grand Canyon,” which he also directed.
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June 13th, 2011 at 2:07 pm
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