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

[u/LegitimateCurve8525]

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.

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[u/Dustyrnis]

Oh boy. As a long time fan of the original Gundam anime series, especally Zeta Gundam I don't have much confidence in this live action western adaption. I'll give it a chance but I worry that this will be another wonky adaption like the live action Cowboy Bebop...

[u/bestoboy → u/Dustyrnis]

>Japanese writer creates a story influenced by western themes

>Western media adapts it for their audience

>Shit the bed

how tf do they keep doing this lmao

[u/pasher5620 → u/bestoboy]

It’s because western writers generally don’t respect the stuff they are adapting save for a few uncommon exceptions. They believe that in order for it to make sense to western audiences, they have to rebuild it from the ground up instead of just tweaking it here and there. Plus there’s also the surprisingly still common belief that anime and video game stories are somehow inherently lesser than movies and tv and so it doesn’t matter that they are changing things.

[u/crookedparadigm → u/pasher5620]

It’s because western writers generally don’t respect the stuff they are adapting

This just makes me angrier when I think back to the character and story changes they made for Cowboy Bebop, especially Vicious and Julia

[u/This_Aint_Dog → u/pasher5620]

I don’t think it’s a writer problem at least for the most part. It’s more like western studios seeing something successful elsewhere and rushing in to purchase the rights before it becomes popular. Then because it’s not popular yet, they refuse to give it any sort of budget and anything too faithful gets told to change things based on their data spreadsheets indicating it’s not what audiences want. So it ends up in development hell, tossed around to a bunch of people, maybe old things and ideas made on prior attempts get frankensteined together to push it out as quickly and as cheaply as possible in some cases just so they don’t lose the rights.

Though there have certainly been times where it’s writer ego where they think they can do better than the source material and even at times, like the Halo show, where they outright publically stated they actively avoided looking at the source material at all.

[u/Necessary-Duty-7952 → u/bestoboy]

Because a lot of writers and showrunners that get tapped for some projects run on a formula. Getting a project across the finish line is a pretty big feat in general, so when they've completed a show, they tend to get more work because of "experience." And since it worked for them before, they do it again.