Robotech finally happening!

[Nostalgiabuff]

http://www.superherohype.com/news/33...ranchise-plans


great news. love this series. god, I hope it does well enough to spawn a series of movies that can span the whole storyline

[Klosterheim]

I am really interested in a Robotech movie. I watched the series again a couple of years ago. Excellent material, technology and space combat. A few bits of weirdness too.

[Nostalgiabuff]

http://www.superherohype.com/news/33...sonys-robotech

more on this. I really hope this happens and they do it right. Loved Robotech as a kid when it originally aired and love it still, cheese factor and all

[sprytel]

I know it is a cliché, but I started watching because of the cool mech designs... and became completely devoted to the show after the Roy Fokker story. Robotech had such a huge impact on me.

The rights to Robotech are so convoluted I still have my doubts that this movie will ever see the light of day. And if it does, I suspect that Hollywood will ruin this movie in every way. "Let's redesign the Veritechs." "Ooh... maybe Minmay could be played by Ke$ha." "Our target demo is people who thought Transformers was too cerebral..."

And yet... Despite knowing it will never happen, or that it will end terribly... I still get excited whenever I see one of these stories. I guess there is an eternal optimist underneath all my gruff exterior.

[Gorn Captain]

I love Robotech, but I fear they'll make it Transformers style, meaning tons of CG, no acting, a big cartoonish mess.
Has Shia Leboeuf been cast yet?

[Nostalgiabuff]

yeah, Shia will be Rick Hunter, LOL

[Gorn Captain]

yeah, Shia will be Rick Hunter, LOL

I feel they should cast him.
In the prologue we see him standing somewhere, he starts whining about everybody hating him, and then a massive robot foot flattens him. I also feel the robot foot should be a really solid prop, not CG.

[Nostalgiabuff]

such anger Rik. I sense you really don't like this guy, LOL

[Gorn Captain]

such anger Rik. I sense you really don't like this guy, LOL

I'm actually pulling my punches...

[Blue Meanie]

Have you seen some of the prices on the old Comico Robotech The Macross Saga #1??!!?? The book has gone completely insane. This was a book you couldn't give away as late as 6 months ago. This is why I hate comic book speculators:

Ungraded:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/robotech-mac...p2047675.l2557

Check out graded:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Macross-1-CG...p2047675.l2557

I remember seeing and loving the original Macross series from Japan. Also remember getting up on Saturday morning to watch and cringe when it became Americanized Robotech. The voices were horrible. They didn't cut out a lot from the original series...but the dubbing made it cringe worthy. I hope they can do The Macross Saga justice with this movie.

[Nostalgiabuff]

see now I watched Robotech first and loved it and found Macross very hard to watch. interesting in that it was the same footage, but hard to get vested in the story, for me anyway. Think I will go watch to some Robotech now

[Nostalgiabuff]

http://www.superherohype.com/news/40...d-for-robotech

first new news I have heard on this in over 2 years

[acrovader]

Just read the above. That's a little more encouraging that was initially announced.

[sprytel]

Yes, Andy Muschietti is now tapped to direct, and he is quite literally the "IT Guy in Hollywood" right now. That makes me a lot more optimistic this is actually happening and may even be... dare I say... good.

(As a total aside, re-reading my comment from a couple of years ago... I feel bad that I used Kesha as my example of a vapid pop star. Poor woman has been through a lot the past couple years. Glad to see she's been able to comeback from all that.)

[Nostalgiabuff]

I see the complete series is now on Netflix and that each of the 3 story lines now has it's own intro. was that done on a recent home video release? I did not watch any episodes to see if there were any
changes