• 'Robotech' Live-Action Movie Franchise Now Planned At Sony

    Sony has taken over the rights for a Robotech live-action movie from Warner Bros. Variety reports that Sony "hopes to move quickly into production" with Gianni Nunnari and 300/The Immortals' Mark Canton producing and 300/GI Joe screenwriter Michael Gordon writing the script. This comes only a a month and a half after it was reported that Warner Bros would be…

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  • Commercial Director Nic Mathieu In Talks To Make 'Robotech' At Warner Bros.

    It was only a couple weeks ago that a trailer for fan-made Robotech movie cropped up online. At the time, we mentioned that Warner Bros. had been developing a live-action adaptation of Robotech for a while, but things had been quiet on that front for many months. While it may seem that interest in the…

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  • Mechs Run Amok In 'Robotech' Fan Trailer

    Guillermo del Toro is doing giant robots in Pacific Rim, Michael Bay did them in Transformers, and an updated version of Voltron has been in and out of development for years. But Robotech, which was the mid-'80s US combination and localization of several Japanese TV series, has yet to inspire a live-action film. Plans were…

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  • Smallville Scribes Hired To Ruin Live-Action Robotech Movie

    Warner Bros has hired new screenwriters for their big screen live-action adaptation of Robotech. Smallville scribes Alfred Gough and Miles Millar have come on board to rewrite Lawrence Kasdan's previous draft. This is not good news. Gough and Millar were the team behind The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, Herbie Fully Loaded, Made Men,…

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  • Lawrence Kasdan's Robotech?

    According to CHUD’s sources, screenwriting legend Lawrence Kasdan is writing the big screen live-action adaptation of Robotech. For those of you who don’t know, Kasdan is the guy who wrote Empire Strikes Back and Raiders of the Lost Ark. What we do know for sure, Warner Bros and Maguire Entertainment are developing the project as…

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  • Tobey Maguire To Bring Robotech To The Big Screen

    Warner Bros has picked up the rights to bring the classic anime series Robotech to the big screen. Tobey Maguire is producing the film, with plans to star. Robotech 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…

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