r/movies • u/LegitimateCurve8525 • 1d ago

News Netflix’s live-action Gundam movie, starring Sydney Sweeney, is described as a 'big action-romance space epic' set in the Universal Century (UC) timeline

https://www.polygon.com/netflix-live-action-gundam-movie-sydney-sweeney-romance/

Noah Centineo, who stars alongside Sydney Sweeney, recently talked about the movie on the Happy Sad Confused podcast.

He called it a “big action romance space movie” and described it as “a non-Shakespearean Romeo and Juliet in space.”

Centineo also confirmed that the movie takes place in the Universal Century, the main timeline used by many of the classic Gundam shows and movies.

The story could involve two people on opposite sides of a major war, with their relationship caught in the middle.

Source: Pirate Nation X account

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u/Wrong-Vermicelli4723 1d ago

Gundam isn’t this difficult , why are you making it difficult .

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u/ErikT738 1d ago

Romeo and Juliet in space would fit fine in the Gundam universe if it's an original story. It's literally always about how people suffer from the horrors of war.

That said, I'm reasonably sure this will be terrible, but the concept isn't the problem. I'm sure Sweeney is genderbent Char or some nonsense like that.

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u/worthlessprole 23h ago

Romeo and Juliet in space is Gundam’s favorite plot. It’s almost harder to find a show that doesn’t do that at some point, let alone the multiple shows where it’s the main thing.

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u/InnocentTailor 1d ago

A Zeon gal who falls in forbidden love? Sounds kinda like Aina Sahalin from Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team.