Warner Brothers gets “Geek” scribes for Robotech Script!
So the “geniuses” behind Smallville, The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, Shanghai Knights and Spider-man 2 are trying their hands at writing the big screen version of Robotech.
According to the Hollywood Reporter, Alfred Gough and Miles Millar will pen the script for Robotech for Warner Brothers. The film will be produced by Akiva Goldsman (I Am Legend, Hancock) and Charles Roven (Batman Begins, The Dark Knight) as well as Tobey Maguire and Drew Cavello.
According to the trade,
“Lawrence Kasdan wrote a previous draft. Warners is intent on keeping the project moving forward, and Gough and Millar bring action and geek cred to the table..”
This is the most we have heard about this project but is one of many 80s anime staples that have been fast-tracked. Last we heard Warner’s had acquired the rights to adapt Robotech but not much had been done. Relativity Media is producing Voltron, another robot anime.
Certainly the success of Transformers is what has peaked the studios interest in adapting similiar stories and staples for the big-screen.
Robotech was a 1980s cartoon series from Harmony Gold USA and Tatsunoko Prods. It was re-edited and re-dialogued to combine three Japanese anime series to give the producers enough episodes to air as a daily syndicated series.
A sprawling sci-fi epic, Robotech takes place at a time when Earth has developed giant robots from the technology on an alien spacecraft that crashed on a South Pacific isle. Mankind is forced to use the technology to fend off an alien invasion, with the fate of the human race ending up in the hands of two young pilots.
Source: Hollywood Reporter
