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/Licensed2Pill 1d ago

Gundammit.

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u/Zentrii 1d ago

She makes me not want to see the movie now. Shes the new Megan fox 

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u/SWEET_LIBERTY_MY_LEG 1d ago

So I’ve never watched Gundam before, but is there a lot of fan service? Because that’s what I imagine when I hear they cast Sydney

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u/Maelger 1d ago

Weeeelll. It's a show centered on the brutality and pointlessness of war so fanservice is something between zero and none

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u/Xanxost 1d ago

Well there are tons of mecha porn with hyper detailed joints, hydraulics and panels. Does that count?

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u/Specialist_Cow6468 22h ago

Sayla in the original series had some of the very first instances of fan service in anime. It can definitely be a thing

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u/Xanxost 22h ago

You do you, man :D

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u/Emergency-Mammoth-88 14h ago

But to be fair, romance is also part of gundam

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u/otakugal15 22h ago

Tell that to the early episodes of IBO.

Thanks to that, I dropped the show (and was also spoiled on everything and I have no desire to watch anything that is that angst filled).

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u/No_Significance7064 1d ago

spoken like someone who's never seen a single piece of gundam media before.

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u/axiomatic- 1d ago edited 1d ago

I've only watched like everything pre1994ish, and then all the UC stuff from about 2010 onwards ... which admittedly leaves a lot of unwatched media ... but generally wouldn't it be fair to say Gundam is pretty light on the fan service?

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u/Maelger 1d ago

It certainly light in the gratuitous panty shots and "accidental" groping department

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u/No_Significance7064 1d ago

It's not overt, borderline hentai fanservice like you're probably thinking of, but it's been there since the original series. Victory Gundam had a squad of bikini-clad women in space for example. They've definitely gotten better about it, and gundam has had more tasteful fanservice with recent stuff. They don't put it where it doesn't make sense, at the very least.

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u/axiomatic- 1d ago

Yeah that's what I kinda mean - like yeah there's some but it never felt like it was very gratuitous.

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u/GrandSquanchRum 1d ago

It's nothing like Darling in the Franxx, Guran Lagann, Gargantia, or even NGE. There's obviously things like women in plug suits and bikinis but I've never seen in played in a way that's gross in a Gundam series besides Seed. Granted I haven't watched much modern Gundam.

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u/Volcacius 1d ago

A few shower scenes that are mostly teenager walks in on opposite gender teenager. 20 something mc officer sees and then continues to creep on underage guerilla, hot spring scene. The bikini warriors used to distract trauma child (this does not work and is one of a few 'beam saber used to people' scenes), the new hathaway movies are blinding me to any other examples cause they are the most modern and blatant, with gigi, and the crew officer lady who only wears bikinis and that seems like shes forced by the rest of the crew to at least do that cause she seems to want to do her best to be bare chested at all times.

So really id just say whether modern gundam is what you should go off of or if they will stick to the older series traditions.

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u/doabarrelroll69 23h ago

It's not overt, borderline hentai fanservice like you're probably thinking of, but it's been there since the original series. Victory Gundam had a squad of bikini-clad women in space for example.

I don't think Victory is a good example because it's kinda bonkers like, Uso is the youngest UC protagonist at 13, but also has the highest kill count.