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Andy Muschietti To Helm “Robotech” Film


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Andy Muschietti, the director of this Fall’s film adaptation of Stephen King’s “IT,” has been tapped to develop and helm a film adaptation of the anime “Robotech” at Sony Pictures.

The story is based on the 1980s cartoon series from Harmony Gold and Tatsunoko Productions which was re-edited and re-dialogued to combine three different Japanese anime series and allow producers enough episodes to air as a daily syndicated series.

The story is set in a time when Earth has developed giant robots from the technology of an alien spacecraft that crashed on a South Pacific island. The technology proves useful when humanity has to fend off a wave of alien invasions.

Muschietti, his creative partner Barbara Muschietti, Gianni Nunnari and Mark Canton will produce. A writer will be sought shortly.

The studio previously sought James Wan to direct, while attempts have been made to adapt the property for over a decade.



 

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This has been my single most loved cartoon from my childhood. I waited my whole life for a movie adaptation and I watched how the directors came and go. Harmony Gold had a good thing going on with Macek and now that he is dead they turned completely to profit, they forgot about Robotech and now they are selling theater studio stuff.. When Sony approached to them I was hesitant but it seems this may turn into an actual movie.

I am not that excited since I know this has already happened but since Harmony is not getting any more money out of Robotech maybe this time they stop behaving like assholes and leave Sony to do it's stuff.
 

Doctor Omega

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This is Max Landis, son of John, and the proposed director, who is also writing the screenplay for it....



 
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ant-mac

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Like father, like son?

I have no idea.

Just so long as he remembers to include the single most important quality about modern film making...

I'm sorry to disappoint you, but I don't believe there's any quality in modern film making. I think it's mostly repetitive crap.
 

Doctor Omega

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Weighing it all up, I just can't see this happening. Or at least not with him in charge.

It feels to me like he is trying to bully his way into doing the remake.

Studio suits might not want to put him at the helm and may want to give it to someone else.

Not that it would be any more successful as a remake if they did.
 

Doctor Omega

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“Conjuring” Scribe To Pen “Body Snatchers” Remake


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“The Conjuring 2” writer David Leslie Johnson has been brought onboard to pen a new remake of the classic paranoia thriller “Invasion Of The Body Snatchers” for Warner Bros. Pictures.

Based on Jack Finney’s 1954 novel, the story takes place in a small town surreptitiously invaded by alien pods that eventually become humans, copies of those who lived in the town but these show no emotion.

One by one, each citizen falls prey to them. A local doctor slowly figures it out and tries to stop it, and all the while never knowing who is real and who is an alien ready to kill.

The property has been adapted multiple times including three well-regarded versions in 1956, 1978 and 1993. The 2007 remake titled “The Invasion” famously flopped though.

John Davis will produce.
 

Doctor Omega

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Stallone Not Involved In “First Blood” Remake


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Sylvester Stallone has squashed rumors of his involvement in the upcoming Indian remake of 1982’s “First Blood” from filmmaker Tiger Shroff.

Through a spokesperson to Deadline, Stallone says: “any involvement in Tiger Sharoff’s Rambo is not happening, under any circumstances.” Stallone reportedly has nothing against the project and says: “I wish them well on their own.”

Stallone instead has turned his focus fully to the “Creed” sequel at MGM for which he is writing the script. The plan is to get that film into production next year.

Stallone has previously hinted online that the plot might pit Michael B. Jordan’s Adonis Creed character against the son of Drago, the Russian heavyweight (Dolph Lundgren) who killed Adonis’ father Apollo Creed (Carl Weathers) in the ring in “Rocky IV”. That remains unconfirmed though.
 

ant-mac

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Another one?!

I love the story - especially the original novel by Jack Finney - but each new version seems to be getting further and further away from the original concept.
 

ant-mac

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I'd forgotten about this freakish and horrific crime against the very essence of nature that is both damnable and disturbing...

Thanks for reminding me. :emoji_neutral_face:
 

Doctor Omega

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Well, Tiger Shroff can dance like Michael Jackson, as evidenced below.

This, to my mind, is only one small step away from playing the definitive version of that brutal, one-man-army, killing machine, known as John Rambo.

I suspect that this may have been his audition tape actually......



 
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Doctor Omega

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I am trying to put a positive spin on this film.....

But I am beginning to suspect that....

It ain't gonna work, is it? :emoji_confused:
 
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