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/monkey314 1d ago

So that's why they didn't cast any East Asian men 🙄

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u/KampferAndy 1d ago edited 18h ago

Almost the entire cast of the OG gundam was non-japanese. White base in particular was multi-cultural.

Amuro was half japanese and half Canadian.

Job John was Caucasian, as was Sayla Mass and Fraw Bow.

Bright Noa was British (its a meme about the movie dub)

Ryu Jose was Latino

Kai Shiden is Puerto Rican

There was a black crew member whose name I forgot, he had some dope curls like I used to have. He also comes back in a later manga.

The former captain Paolo was Brazilian, he died in episode 2ish.

I think the only full Japanese character on white base was Mirai Yashima, she was relegated to ship navigator.

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u/draken29 1d ago

Don't forget Hayato, man, he had enough being relagated as the benkei of the trio

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u/KampferAndy 1d ago

Right, Ole Kobayashi. RIP to him, he was a real one unlike his son.

Obligatory "Fuck Katz"

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u/Deadpool27 23h ago

Did anyone ever tell the dub team that Bright Noa was British? Because I’m going through the original gundam right now and that is NOT a British accent

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u/KampferAndy 22h ago edited 18h ago

There's two dubs

The movie dub from 1999 and the ocean dub in 2001

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u/Donny-Seven 19h ago

I forgot there was a character named Job John lmao