Warner Brothers Bringing Robotech to the Big Screen

Tharca01

Doing a remake of the original Macross would probably work better than rehashing through this bastardized version known as Robotech.

jbrasil

Tobby Maguire has made 3 successful spiderman movies in the lead role. hollywood in general likes to butcher a good story (cram the whole thing into 2 or 3 hours). the only film that I think did really well @ the 3 hour mark was schindlers list. Not sure if robotech could hold its own as a 3 hour film.

that being said Maguire productions is doing the story. Tobby Maguire grew up probably hang off the tv waiting for that stirring orchastra music and film strip to start rolling every day. Most of the production staff too. Maguire has the franchise rights. He's got warner and harmony gold staff. Warner has done batman 4 or 5 times, spiderman?? the did that whole thing right?. Harmony has launch a successful robotech webpage, toy line, webstore, several animated remasters and new film.

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john8765

the only way they could get a whole story and remain true to Robotech is to copy the graphic novel of Genesis (the prequel in the Ballentine books). Anything else would mean to much editing and story rewrite. Don't rewrite stories Hollywood you suck at it. Just ask Tolkien... Oh, he can't hear you he rolled over.

CUPIDORE

might be good but not better than star wars.

peterhawkes

If this is done right. It could be better than star wars. I'm so excited !

http://www.peterhawkes.com

DaRkCoMmAnDo7

If they kill Robotech with this movie,oh my god im gonna cry so much. If they make it awesome, I will be happier than i was at transformers, and i was happy like a kid at christmas when transformers came out. imagine happier than that. That COULD be me.

Bluewolf

If the Robotech film is done correctly they can have many movie sequels within the Macross saga itself and build up a solid fan base again but I'm afraid their just going to chop it all up and spit out a crappy film with lousy special effects, story lines, and omitting established characters just to make a quick film for a quick buck. I really want to see this done right as to see Robotech come to life as many of us did as teens growing up with this series. I just hope Transformers was just a prelude for what is to come when Robotech hits the scene.

Shifty

Hmmm

They might Mess it up (as in Holliwoodize) it to the point that it is only to sell tickets and raze hype.
DooM is a prime example, where they sellout the story for hype, (like the genetic monsters instead of hell spawn.)

I'm a bit apprehensive about it.

Spaz

Honestly, this is probably the best news I've heard in regards to remaking shows from my childhood.

Maguire picks his movies very carefully, and if he's going to be in it AND produce it, it could turn out to be good. I'm glad that the Transformers movie opened up the idea that big robots duking it out in our world isn't a bad idea.

Michael5

It could be cool, We'll see.