This just in from the nerdwire
By Borys Kit Sat Sep 8, 2:51 PM ET
TORONTO (Hollywood Reporter) – After slipping on a mask for Spider-Man, Tobey Maguire might be slipping into a giant robot for “Robotech.”
After a lengthy negotiation, Warner Bros. Pictures has picked up feature rights to “Robotech,” a 1980s Japanese cartoon series with giant robots known as mechas. Maguire is eyeing the lead role, and will serve as a producer.
“We are very excited to bring ‘Robotech’ to the big screen,” Maguire said. “There is a rich mythology that will be a great foundation for a sophisticated, smart and entertaining film.”
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. 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.
The $686 million worldwide box office success of “Transformers” has inspired other studios to assemble giant robot movies. Last month, Fox-based Regency picked up 1980s Japanese anime series “Voltron.”
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I just wish they would stop abusing my childhood memories.
Go-Bots movie, anyone? Perhaps MASK?
I think that the next DnD movie needs to be in Eberron. Either that or at a carnival.
Toby would make a good Rick Hunter. I am jealous that I didn’t have the money to get the right first. Everyone knows this is something that I wanted YEARS ago.
The announcement was 2007. I haven’t seen anything since.
Except for this awesomeness:
http://www.robotech.com/store/viewproduct.php?id=378