Tobey Maguire to Produce and Star in Robotech Live-Action Movie
By Nix | September 7, 2007 (1:18 pm)
Okay, maybe saying Tobey Maguire will produce AND star is a bit premature, but Maguire WILL produce, that much we know for sure, the upcoming Robotech live-action movie for Warner Bros., who just finished securing the movie rights to the Japanese anime series and has handed it over to Spider-Man himself. Obviously if Maguire is smart, he’ll put himself in the pilot chair of one of those giant robot mechas, because this thing is going to be HUGE. If you thought “Transformers” was a big deal, how about an army of jets that can transform into giant robots with huge friggin’ laser cannons battling it out with big ass aliens? That’s Robotech!
More from The Hollywood Reporter:
After a lengthy negotiation, Warner Bros. Pictures has picked up the rights to bring anime classic “Robotech,” which featured giant robots known as mechas, to the big screen. Maguire is producing through his Maguire Entertainment banner and is eyeing the lead role in what the studio plans on being a tentpole sci-fi franchise.
“We are very excited to bring ‘Robotech’ to the big screen,” Maguire said. “There is a rich mythology that will be a great foundation for a sophisticated, smart and entertaining film.”
Drew Crevello also is producing through his Supercool Hollywood BigTime Prods. Craig Zahler (”The Brigands of Rattleborge”) has been tapped to write the screenplay.
Very, very cool. I loved this series when I was a kid, and no doubt the CGI advances in “Transformers” made transforming jets and robots possible for “Robotech”.
Here’s a breakdown of the original anime storylines via Wikipedia:
Within the combined and edited story, Robotechnology refers to the scientific advances discovered in an alien starship that crashed on a South Pacific island. With this technology, Earth developed giant robotic machines or mecha (many of which were capable of transforming into vehicles) to fight three successive extraterrestrial invasions.
[The storyline spans] three generations, as mankind must fight three destructive Robotech Wars in succession over a powerful energy source called “Protoculture”:
* The First Robotech War (The Macross Saga) concerns humanity’s battle against the Zentraedi, a race of giant warriors who are sent to earth to retrieve the flagship of the Robotech Master Zor. The ship contains the last known source of Protoculture in the universe.
* The Second Robotech War (The Masters) begins when the creators of the Zentraedi, the Robotech Masters, attempt to take up where the Zentraedi left off, and capture the protoculture held within the remains of the SDF-1.
* The Third Robotech War (The New Generation) occurs after the alien Invid have been alerted to the existence of Protoculture on Earth by events that transpired at the end of the Second Robotech War. The planet is conquered, then enslaved, and it is up to the Robotech Expeditionary Force to retake their ancestral homeland.
Damn, this could be very, very cool…
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Finally Robotech will hit the big screen!
I LOVE THE TRANSFORMERS AND LOVE ROBOTECH, I GREW UP WATCHING THIS CARTOONS THAT INSPIRE AN ARMY OF KIDS WANTING TO BE FITERPILOTS AND ENGINEEERS THAT ONE DAY WOULD GET US THE REAL THING.
I AM GUITTY WITH EXITEMENT, I WANT THIS MOVIES TO INSPIRE A NEW GENERATION OF KIDS TO LOOK IN TO THE FUTURE AND MAIBE ONE DAY THIS MACHINES WE SEE IN THE MOVIES WILL COME TO FLUISION. THE BOTTOM LINE THIS TYPE OF MOVIE IS LIKE TAPPING IN TO STARWARS. I HOPE THEY START SOON I WANT TO SEE SKULL LEADER WIPPING SOME ALIEN ASS!!!
When I heard the news that Robotech becoming into a motion picture, I flipped out, I cheered. But, I dont think toby m. has what it takes to act out to be Rick Hunter. Toby M. to me, doesn’t have of wide range of characters to express. All his movies are basically the same innocent, coy, humble characters as in spider-man, seabiscuit, cider house rules, etc. That dance Toby M. acted out on SpiderMan 3 jumped the shark. lol. Rick Hunter deserves to be Rick Hunter. He should be sharp looking, and clever. I vote for Jake Gyllenhal!
I think it’s a great idea, but not as a motion piture. It would be better if it was a series. There’s a better character development in a series. A two hour movie? c’mon. These are great characters and it will be botched by condensing their development. After all that’s why we love them so.
i loved robotech im a bit too young but i’m the youngest and my brothers watched it for years we are big robotech geeks we are alll extremely excited over the movie but i and we agree toby M is NOT rick at all James Franco would make a good roy (though he is about 5 years too young ) and clint eastwood would do for Glovle in a pinch but i think Gery oldmen would be better as for rick im not sure who can pull off his smart ass pilot. i think who they have lined up for lisa and minma are all wrong too i like kyra nightly but i just dont think shes lisa and Amanda Bynes AS Minma helllllll noooooo hell mandy moor would do a better job ! Minma was first and formost a singer ( albit annoying after a while) and i know Amanda Bynes was in hair spray but still dont think she minma. and no one had said anything about who going to play ben max and myria
well i think, you are all right, a series would be better to get all the fighting and characters develop. A single movie is just a shot of adrenaline. At first i didn’t think about it as you see in my first comment but you guys make a great point. I hope they dont screw this up, this movie my make more than BATMAN THE DARK NIGHT. WILL SEE, TRANSFORMERS 2 IS COMING AND SOUND WAVE, AND I HOPE THE CONSTRUCTICONS, WOULD BE BAD ASS!
Robotech IMHO - needs to be realistic, and a bit dark sorta like the DARK KNIGHT. It has to be better than MACROSS ZERO, and thats no small task.Its has capture that sense of awe, and grandure but also make it feel real with a dash of nostalgia thrown in, which made the original series so special.
Not sure who would make a good Rick Hunter(not Jake Gyllenhall thou), but I think a Good Roy Fokker would be Brad Pitt type actor, although brad pitt kinda bugs…I always saw a young Tom Cruise as a great Rick Hunter