Comments on: Robotech Movie Gets Awesome Writer!

By: Bruce Simmons

Bruce Simmons — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 08:26:35 +0000

I agree with you Mike, I hate it when so much is covered in so little time in a movie. But would there be enough TV support to warrant it nowadays is the big question.

Thanks for writing Mike.

By: Mike

Mike — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 04:41:31 +0000

I think the way to do this is a TV series (Cable:profanity). Following much like Battlestar Galactica. More room for character development and maybe some new ones. Plus it will be great when you have to wait for the next episode, just like when it was back then:)
A movie is just too short, they condense it and you’ll have a Spiderman 3 again.

By: FlameStrike

FlameStrike — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 03:36:43 +0000

I suspect they probably will just stick to the Macross portion of Robotech for at least the first movie, but I don’t see any reason why future installments shouldn’t or couldn’t draw from the other two portions of the series.

As for giving the movie more depth, I don’t see that they can’t stick to the basic Robotech story and still add in at least some of what you ask for while still leaving open the possibilities of the Robotech Masters and Invid storylines for later movies. If handled correctly, the Macross storyline could easily last three movies and set up a fourth based on the next set of episodes.

By: Wintermute

Wintermute — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 15:03:38 +0000

I’m as happy as you are with this news. However, I hope Maguire and his writers will not include the so-called second and third ‘seasons’ since they’re actually shows completely unrelated. I also wish they will explain the ‘protoculture’ the same way it was in Macross : not a new energy source, but the very first civilization (“culture”) common to humans and zentradies. This has a lot more depth and carries a lot more underpinnings than fighting – again – for energy : the zentradies have forgotten anything from their pasts, they’re all dedicated to war, have no engineering or technical skills except for waging wars, they rely on automated factories to build theur machines and when it fails, they cannot fix it. They’re so brainwashed into waging war that they’re paralyzed when hearing for the first time music.
I understand that it’s robotech’s rights that were bought, not Macross’, but I see no right infringement in scripting a real good story instead of the robotech story that was a dumbed down version of the original macross one.

By: FlameStrike

FlameStrike — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 23:50:02 +0000

“Lessons learned from Transformers will no doubt make this superior…”

Not like that’s going to be hard.

By: 790

790 — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 23:45:15 +0000

Lessons learned from Transformers will no doubt make this superior…

By: FlameStrike

FlameStrike — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 16:57:39 +0000

It should certainly be possible to reimagine the property so they aren’t just copying everything that’s been done before, while remaining true to what has been done before. If this writer is as good as people seem to believe he is, he should be able to pull it off, especially with the founder of the company that created Robotech on board.

By: the old man

the old man — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 08:25:05 +0000

So what do people want to see cannon or a rethink?

By: FlameStrike

FlameStrike — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 23:15:42 +0000

Having Frank Agrama on board gives me some hope that this will turn out better than Transformers did. At the very least, I’m sure he’ll do what he can to make sure the story remains true to the source.

This is one I am definitely looking forward to. Here’s hoping the team doesn’t disappoint.

By: Bigslim

Bigslim — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 20:52:09 +0000

This is the cartoon that i cried in when Lt Roy Focker died. It was also the first cartoon I saw that there was an interracial relationship, and interspecies relationship…before its time.

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By: Rob

Rob — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 16:17:14 +0000

I think this movie could easily spawn an ongoing movie franchise, With Tobey in it and 1-2 other big-name actors (Zac Efron for the main kid character to bring the entire world’s population under 14 into the theatres, heh)

My only concern would be budget…would they get big money comparable to Transformers to make it right?

By: Bruce Simmons

Bruce Simmons — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 12:23:01 +0000

Yes Jerseycajun, so do I!

By: jerseycajun

jerseycajun — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 05:11:17 +0000

That said, I have great respect for his work and hope it bodes well for the new movie.

By: jerseycajun

jerseycajun — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 05:07:07 +0000

Kasdan is one of the reasons Lucas’ ideas got as far as they did.

Oh, how I wish he had written Indy IV.