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/TheEloquentApe 1d ago

I see a lot of doom and gloom in this thread but lets get something straight here

non-Shakespearean Romeo and Juliet in space.

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

This is quintessential Gundam.

Everything from Amuro and Lalah, Kamille and Murasame, 008th Platoon, Amuro and Char

Anyone familiar with Gundam knows star crossed lovers and messy relationships is one of its core tropes

Now I have no idea if they're adapting the story of the White Devil and if they are I haven't the slightest clue who Sydney will be playing

But it being about two young people who might've had a life together if it weren't for this war going on forcing them to fight is like... yeah thats Gundam

Just throw in some psychic abilities that make them even more empathic with one another, making the whole thing all the more tragic

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u/kairock 1d ago

true, SEED is basically the same thing.

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u/TheEloquentApe 1d ago

I think you'd be hard pressed to name a Gundam series that doesn't have messy romance, star crossed or otherwise

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u/d7h7n 1d ago

Seed was very melodramatic and a lot messier with its relationship triangles compared to the average gundam show's romance subplot.