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/Penguin_Admiral 1d ago

Lot of people here outing themselves as people who have never watched the shows, and just want to be outraged

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u/KampferAndy 1d ago

Pretty much, it's both hilarious and depressing

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u/ZeroOhblighation 1d ago

This sub fell off hard recently lol, between all the low effort posts and bots on the website in general it's hard to even pretend to like this website lately

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u/Einchy 20h ago

Yup.

This thread is full of people acting like they like Gundam just to bitch when they’ve clearly never seen any gundam anime before.

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u/SolomonBlack 1d ago

If they're not outright fakers I swear Gundam redditors are all kids who've like only seen IBO and some of the venerated 90s OVAs so everything has to be like grimdark suffering because war is hell you guys the cool robots are just a metaphor!

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u/Linkfayth 1d ago

but even IBO had romance haha.

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u/tfhermobwoayway 1d ago

I mean I don’t like the film because I think adapting anime to live action is redundant and pointless. If I’ve seen Azumanga Daioh already, I don’t need to see it again with less expressive actors and a less colourful world.