Legendary has tapped actor Jason Clarke as the next addition to its upcoming live-action Gundam movie, with the studio also eyeing Netflix as the film’s distributor.
As reported by Deadline, Clarke, best known for portraying villainous roles in various movies such as 2103’s White House Down and 2015’s Terminator Genisys, will join the film’s cast and appear alongside Sydney Sweeney (Euphoria) and Noah Centineo (The Recruit), although Clarke’s role and the film’s overall plot still remain under wraps.
Based on the iconic mecha anime franchise which launched in 1979, the Gundam movie marks its first live-action film and will be helmed by director and scriptwriter Jim Mickle (Sweet Tooth), who will also produce the flick alongside his partner Linda Moran via their production company Nightshade, as well as Centineo.
Although plot details of the Gundam movie remain mostly under wraps, the film is set to see Sweeney as its central character, who develops a relationship with a man on the opposite side of a galactic war, similar in vein to the Shakespeare classic Romeo and Juliet. Although unconfirmed, it’s likely that Centineo will take on the role of her on-screen counterpart, with Clarke possibly taking on an antagonistic one.
The original Mobile Suit Gundam anime centred on an intergalactic war between the Principality of Zeon, a faction formed by colonies outside Earth, and the Earth Federation in a fight for independence, deploying massive robots known as Mobile Suits, also known as Gundam, so it remains to be seen of the upcoming film will adapt this storyline, or instead focus on later Gundam titles such as its most recent entry, Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX.
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