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James Wan (“Furious 7”) is in early talk to direct Sony’s live-action “Robotech” feature.
“300” scribe Michael Gordon is writing the script. Gianni Nunnari and Mark Canton are producing.
Originally Japanese anime TV shows, “Robotech” came to the US as an 80’s cartoon series from Harmony Gold USA and Japan’s Tatsunoko Productions.
The sci-fier takes place when Earth has developed giant robots from the technology on an alien spacecraft that crashed on a South Pacific island. Mankind is forced to use the technology to fend off three successive waves of alien invasions. The first invasion concerns a battle with a race of giant warriors who seek to retrieve their flagship’s energy source, known as “protoculture,” and the planet’s survival ends up in the hands of two young pilots.
