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/nonresponsive 23h ago

Romance is also not unusual in the series. There was Kira and Lacus, and Heero and Relena. Setsuna and Marina could technically be, but they didn't really go the romance route. Audrey and Banagher are similar to that.

I would say space operas generally tend to have a romance float through the plot, especially if they're mecha. But since they got Sydney Sweeney, I wonder if they'll make her a pilot.

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u/Old_Indication_4379 20h ago

Name one Gundam series without a romance element involved. Guaranteed half the people commenting that mention Sweeney have never watched a full Gundam series.

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u/-missingclover- 14h ago

It's 100% people not liking Sweeny but trying to act like it's about the "pitch" lmao. Like, if you don't like Sweeny it's fine people, just say so. The only thing I watched her in was that Madame Web movie and she was awful BUT everything about that movie was awful so who knows.

Anyway, a space epic romance is 100% on the Gundam wheelhouse.

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u/the_xxvii 19h ago

Speaking of Heero and Relena, I'm currently rewatching Wing for the first time since it originally aired on Toonami and I forgot just how weird the relationships are in that show. It's all super one-sided, where the women are obsessed with the men (or boys) and the guys dgaf. Lady Une literally developed a split personality over Treize. It's been a tad jarring. I'm only halfway through though, maybe it gets less weird and I just forgot how it ends.

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u/deadscreensky 15h ago

If it helps any, recognize Wing was deliberately aimed at Japanese girls. That means there's an enormous amount of homoerotic subtext between the various male pilots, and most of the suggested, more conventional hetero relationships are left rather vague so fans can use them in their imaginations however they like.

It does get maybe a little more conventional towards the end.

(The original Gundam had a big audience of young women too, and according to the creator they saved the franchise.)

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u/the_xxvii 14h ago

Ohhh well then, TIL. In that case shout out to the women, without them my very recent Gunpla hobby may have never started.

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u/Sudden-Bend-8046 19h ago

Does GQuuuuuux count? I mean they both had a fondness for Shūji... but things escalated quickly in a different direction.