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Yesterday, I managed to spot a piece of entertainment news that reported that Tobey Maguire and Warner Brothers had plans to make a live-action movie of Robotech, and it caught my attention. News has been circulating of other animated series at least connected to anime (such as Speed Racer) being made into live-action movies, and I suppose I might have had the occasional thought that some hypothetical "window of opportunity" might either exist or be closing for Robotech...
Of course, right now the situation seems to be one where wild speculation is pretty much all that's possible. I've seen just enough to notice that some fans seem hopeful about Tobey Maguire's name being connected with the project, I can certainly imagine others just muttering "Forget it, it's Hollywood," and I can wonder what parts of Robotech's composite storyline might be worked into the project and how, given what seems general confusion about just who has what parts of the rights to the original anime Macross... and then, of course, there's the possibility that the project might never make it out of development anyway. I do know there was talk about ten years ago now of making a live-action movie of "Star Blazers," but nothing came of it... Still, the simple idea does interest me. Robotech started as a potentially peculiar reinterpretation of several anime series (I'm willing be unsure how much of that was intentional), and now that might be going to happen again...
Of course, right now the situation seems to be one where wild speculation is pretty much all that's possible. I've seen just enough to notice that some fans seem hopeful about Tobey Maguire's name being connected with the project, I can certainly imagine others just muttering "Forget it, it's Hollywood," and I can wonder what parts of Robotech's composite storyline might be worked into the project and how, given what seems general confusion about just who has what parts of the rights to the original anime Macross... and then, of course, there's the possibility that the project might never make it out of development anyway. I do know there was talk about ten years ago now of making a live-action movie of "Star Blazers," but nothing came of it... Still, the simple idea does interest me. Robotech started as a potentially peculiar reinterpretation of several anime series (I'm willing be unsure how much of that was intentional), and now that might be going to happen again...
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