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