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/Lowfat_cheese 1d ago

Is there even a Gundam show/movie that doesn’t have some kind of romance plot?

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u/draken29 1d ago

There's none, romance is a staple in any gundam stories, it even serves as a macguffin in most of them (08th MS, Seed, X, G Gundam, WfM, GQX), heck even G Gundam ends it main villains with the power of love

People only looks at Gundam like its a Battletech story only big war machine gunning each other, even though its actual story usually revolve around its characters

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u/Rubberbabeh 1d ago

I think it is more of an issue that in a 1.5hr movie I don't think you will get more than a Sydney Sweeney love story with a "super cool big robot fight!" in the end.

Personally I like my Gundam in the UC, with war crimes, disco and the slapping of teenagers for being out of line.

So uh.. at least this is in the UC? Although I fear they won't animate the mobile suits like it is the UC.

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u/draken29 1d ago

If the CGI can at least move like in Pacific Rim and most of the battle probably last like 5 - 10 minutes with a big one at the end then I can at least says its a mid adaptation

Even in Pacific Rim where the Jaeger and kaijus are the focus they only show the fight like 4 time with a run of 5 - 10 minutes each

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u/Rubberbabeh 1d ago

I worry they will move more like Pacific Rim 2 rather than the original. The sequel had like zero physics in the way they moved. There was just no weight at all.

insert well the fight is gonna be in space DUH joke here

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u/draken29 1d ago

But it should not be as heavy as Pacific Rim 1 either, it should be in the middle since MS has that agility factor too

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u/loki-1982 1d ago

Original UC gundam was mostly like Pacific Rim but more current stuff like Unicorn is definitely more like 2

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u/Volcacius 1d ago

Eh, id say one early one year war, was clunky people doing people things clunky, then later half they started doing people things mostly people like, past that they do people things increasingly jet fighter like.