ashfire wrote:I just read that there will be a live action Robotech and Toby Maguire will star in it plus be part of its production.
Also Fox based Regency as gotten the rights to Voltron.
SolidÃ…rmor wrote:Can you link the source of this "rumor"? Believe me those guys on the Official Roboech forum are STICKLERS for stuff like this. Heck the thread on wether a live action movie should be done gets pretty nasty.
Rocketshipper wrote:NOOOOOOO!!! *dies*.
It should be Macross, darn it! Not Robotech!!!! MACROSS! I know, I know. Robotech was a huge hit and everyone remembers it fondly and all that jazz, but it still depresses me that a Macekred version of three animes (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Macekre) has eclipsed the original versions for most in the US. I wonder if Maguire has even seen the original versions.
Rocketshipper wrote:^ Sadly, that's not too much of a consolation for me. We'd still be stuck with the english names, and the change they made with "protoculture", and a few possible character deaths that weren't in the original.
And it will still be called Robotech -_-. And that really gets to the main point of why I don't like this, or Robotech in general. Now I do like dubs, and am sometimes a very forgiving person with changes (for example: I like the Sailor Moon dub, even the Dic episodes), but for me, Robotech crosses a line. Taking three shows and stringing them together with a new plot, is IMO, worse than even something like the One Piece dub. Regardless of if the "Macross saga" was the least edited of the three shows; it's the principle of the thing. As far as I'm concerned, "Robotech" isn't a real show, it's just a glorified fanfic that some guys wrote to try and connect these unrelated shows. And sometimes I'm a little annoyed with the fandom, and things like this movie, and that "Shadow Chronicles" thing, because they seem to give legitimacy to a show that's not really a show, but just something some american guys made up. I mean, if an anime company did the same thing again today, fans would probably destroy them, so why does "Robotech" get an exemption? (is it just nostolgia?)
And that's all.
Maokun: Ninjas or Pirates? (Vikings are not a valid answer, sorry)
EricTheFred: Vikings are always a valid answer.
mitsuki lover wrote:For me the Rick/Minmei storyline is the key to Robotech so finding the actors to play them would be the essential part of casting for the movie.
Rocketshipper wrote:What Eric says is new information for me though. So would it be safe to say that Macross, Mospeade, and Southern Cross are sort of like "the Gundam universe", different self contained stories and characters but a similar technology and style?
all 3 shows separately were not doing so well in Japan by themselves.
Rocketshipper wrote:[color="Black"]I don't know about the other two, but Macross was suscessful enough that the writers increased it's lenght from the original planned 26 episodes. And of course it spawned all those other series and movies.[/color]
[color="Black"]were not doing so well in Japan by themselves[/color]
[color="Black"]You don't know what fans of today would do if someone did this again.[/color]
[color="Black"]I don't know, I can't imagine any fans today accepting another "robotech" style adaption, just judging by how badly most people react to 4kids dubs and stuff like that. Some fans can't even stand it when they translate sound effects in manga, or the credit sequences of anime ^^]
mitsuki lover wrote:[color="Black"]For the record I believe back in those days a tv series needed at least
52 episodes to be considered eligible for syndication.I could be wrong.[/color]
[color="Black"]It was a grand moment for those of use who were actually alive and out of diapers when those rabid fanfic lunatics murdered the original show and brought us something we didn't know could even exist in a cartoon. I’m thankful they did it.[/color]
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