With Voltron going strong with a reboot, that reminds me that there's a Robotech live action movie being made. The similarity is that both series originated as "mash ups" of multiple anime franchises. The big difference is that the company with the rights to Robotech are mega douchebags. They've basically blocked anything related to the original source material being released in USA (which includes 30 years worth of sequels), to protect their precious "brand", while making the most Shit-Tastic "sequels" on their own. But the big joke is that they don't actually have the rights to most of the stuff people liked about Robotech, so their sequels have almost no "Robotechy" stuff going on. thus they fail hard.
For the last 10 years they've been trying to work out how you make a movie of a TV show when you don't actually have the rights to most of anything that was in the show ... Shoji Kawamori (the original mecha designer and director of the franchise) has actually said he wants to help out with the Robotech Movie, but I'm guessing this is contingent on them stopping from fucking him over on Macross distribution rights, so they've basically given him the middle finger by ignoring his overtures. Harmony Gold treat this as a zero-sum game - more macross = less Robotech, whereas Kawamori sees collaboration as an opportunity to grow both brands.
Anyway, the main news is that Warner Bros gave up on making this movie after almost 10 years in development hell, and sold the rights to Sony, who've announced a new director (in a long line of proposed directors). Will Sony still screw over the original content creators, or will they resolve the idiotic dispute and actually make a Robotech movie people want to see - one that contains Robotech Stuff, unlike the previous Robotech: Shadow Chronicles cartoon from 2006?
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