Funny enough, this Gundam movie won’t be the first time that the franchise has been represented on the big screen in live action.
With so many decades worth of stories and the cultural significance this franchise has in Japan, it will be interested to see how well a Gundam movie will translate for Western audiences, let alone if it will break the anime movie curse in Hollywood.
The company has experience with giant robots thanks to the Pacific Rim movies, so at minimum, I expect the mechas in Gundam will be visually dazzling.
Earlier this year, Ready Player One featured the RX-78-2 mecha, arguably the most recognizable mecha in the Gundam mythology, in the climactic OASIS battle to battle the MechaGodzilla.