Macross - Live Movie

[airconvent]

Hi<br />There's this rumour thar the old favourite Macross Super Dimensional Fortress (also known as Robotech) is being explored for a live action movie.<br />Does anyone have any idea if its true? <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p> </p><p><strong>To Boldly Go Where No Man Has Gone Before...</strong></p><p><strong>Live Long and Prosper</strong></p> </div>

 

[astralith]

True, unfortunately Toby "Spiderman" McQuire wants to be Rick Hunter and since he's producing it...<br /><br />I like Toby as an actor in general but not for Rick Hunter unless they "reboot" the story or something... AND NO, NOT SHIA LABEOUF EITHER!

 

[astralith]

Another issue I have with this movie is that the Veritech/Valkyrie Fighter is absolutely iconic as a F14 Tomcat mimick. Seeing as how they'll likely use the F22 (can you say Starscream) or the Joint Strike fighter or worse, something totally contrieved like on Stealth, I'll feel like those Transformer G1 diehards who felt their "childhoods were raped". BTW, whoever did the work on Stealth should be hired to do the FX on Robotech.

 

[airconvent]

mmm...I guess I do not have issue with Tobey as Rick.<br />I would certainly imagine Laura Liney being Lisa Hayes but wonder if there is anyone out there sweet enough to be play minmei well enough? I hope they stick true to the original for the first movie rather than having it "re-imagined". <br />And I certainly do not want it to become like another Transformer movie. Macross (I) was about love with action thrown in, not the other way round like Transformers. <br />And yes, the F14 transforming do look more better looking than a featureless F22 doing it. Can't imagine an F22 going to "guardian" mode.! <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p> </p><p><strong>To Boldly Go Where No Man Has Gone Before...</strong></p><p><strong>Live Long and Prosper</strong></p> </div>

 

[CalliArcale]

Just as long as they write some better songs for Minmei. *shudder*<br /><br />And I have to agree that the Valkyrie really ought to be an F-14 lookalike. I could tolerate Starscream becoming a JSF (and Optimus becoming a Peterbilt -- though it still annoyed me that Bumblebee wasn't a Beetle anymore), but the swingwings of the F-14 are pretty critical to the Valkyrie. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p> </p><p><font color="#666699"><em>"People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but actually from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint it's more like a big ball of wibbly wobbly . . . timey wimey . . . stuff."</em>  -- The Tenth Doctor, "Blink"</font></p> </div>

 

[PistolPete]

<blockquote><font class="small">In reply to:</font><hr /><p>it still annoyed me that Bumblebee wasn't a Beetle anymore<p><hr /></p></p></blockquote><br />I always knew that there was a reason that I never saw the movie, and that is the final nail in the coffin. Thanks for saving me $20-30 when the DVD comes out. <img src="/images/icons/laugh.gif" /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p> </p><p><em>So, again we are defeated. This victory belongs to the farmers, not us.</em></p><p><strong>-Kambei Shimada from the movie Seven Samurai</strong></p> </div>

 

[airconvent]

oh..no need for new songs...just the exact same original one s with exact intrumentation but sung with english lyrics to "localise" it. ..man those songs were incredible.<br />When I heard "Do You Remember Love" in my car CD, I felt like I was really in a valkerie fighter off to fight the zentraedes! <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p> </p><p><strong>To Boldly Go Where No Man Has Gone Before...</strong></p><p><strong>Live Long and Prosper</strong></p> </div>

 

[CalliArcale]

<blockquote><font class="small">In reply to:</font><hr /><p>Thanks for saving me $20-30 when the DVD comes out<p><hr /></p></p></blockquote><br /><br />It's already out. My brother-in-law bought a copy and loaned it to us so we could watch it. My daughter loved it. It actually wasn't as bad as I was fearing, and it was still fun. There were some annoying bits. I got over the conversion of Bumblebee into a Camaro (even though it made his name kinda silly). Making Starscream into a Raptor made sense -- the only reason so many Decepticons were F-15s was really just so they could churn out more toys with the same dies. Transformers always really was a vehicle for the toys more than anything else.<br /><br />One major improvement was Megatron. Instead of turning into a laughably small handgun, he turns into an alien artillery piece, which makes a lot more sense from the perspective of conservation of mass.<br /><br />The one bit I can't forgive, though, is the bit where NASA mission controllers in what looks like the Shuttle MCC observe "NASA's Beagle 2" (which looks exactly like a MER) being destroyed by a Decepticon, from a third-person-omnipotent POV rather than from a camera on the actual lander. There was so much factually wrong with that scene that I just couldn't help but burst out giggling. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p> </p><p><font color="#666699"><em>"People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but actually from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint it's more like a big ball of wibbly wobbly . . . timey wimey . . . stuff."</em>  -- The Tenth Doctor, "Blink"</font></p> </div>

 

[airconvent]

mmm..there's been no whimper in the official channels about the new Macross movie. Can we assume it has been put on hold? <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p> </p><p><strong>To Boldly Go Where No Man Has Gone Before...</strong></p><p><strong>Live Long and Prosper</strong></p> </div>