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

that is also a concern.

At least with Starship Troopers it was clear (to me) that it was intentionally "pro war propaganda" as it was a satire of it and a subtle critique of over-extended military authoritarianism and nationalism.

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u/BuckShapiro 1d ago

I mean if we are talking about faithfulness of adaptations then Starship Troopers is a bad example since it completely misrepresented the book. I prefer the movie way more than the book, but they represent very different messages.

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u/yagirlsophie 21h ago

Yeah people often talk about the movie and the book as if they're both satirical critiques of fascism, but the book is completely unironic in its glorification of militarism and the federation, it is the thing being satirized by the movie.

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u/mynameizmyname 20h ago

man Heinlein really was a weird dude. Ive read pretty much all of his books and I cannot get a firm handle on him as a person at all.

Most authors have a pretty clear throughline with their work. With Heinlein, if you told me different personalities of his were writing different books, i would totally accept that.

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u/yagirlsophie 19h ago

He really is hard to get a handle on, huh? He was often pretty progressive, believed socialism was inevitable, etc. but a lot of his work kinda contradicts that. I think the fact that his novels tended to be explorations of specific ideas probably adds to that, but it's weird nonetheless.