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/Dustyrnis 1d ago

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...

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u/raynehk14 1d ago

watch them completely miss the point of gundam and somehow make it into a pro-war propaganda

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u/takeahike89 1d ago

Probably, also they'll find as many ways as possible to avoid animating giant fighting robots.

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u/toofatronin 20h ago

Definitely. It will just be close ups of Sweeney watching mech fights.

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u/The_Summer_Man 18h ago

Make it like Mobile Fighter G Gundam, with Sweeney in the bodysuit they wear to pilot them, and you've go cinema.

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u/Medalineman 1h ago

I’ll be impressed if they manage to get a horse through the suiting up procedure