http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/09/live-action-robotech-movie-in-the-works/ Engadget Comments for Live-action Robotech movie in the works http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/09/live-action-robotech-movie-in-the-works/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/09/live-action-robotech-movie-in-the-works/Sep 9th 2007 6:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/09/live-action-robotech-movie-in-the-works/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/09/live-action-robotech-movie-in-the-works/Sep 10th 2007 11:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/09/live-action-robotech-movie-in-the-works/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/09/live-action-robotech-movie-in-the-works/Sep 9th 2007 6:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/09/live-action-robotech-movie-in-the-works/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/09/live-action-robotech-movie-in-the-works/
We're so crazy we're still trying to build a game based on it.

http://www.robotechmmo.com]]>Sep 9th 2007 10:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/09/live-action-robotech-movie-in-the-works/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/09/live-action-robotech-movie-in-the-works/Sep 17th 2007 2:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/09/live-action-robotech-movie-in-the-works/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/09/live-action-robotech-movie-in-the-works/Nov 19th 2007 3:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/09/live-action-robotech-movie-in-the-works/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/09/live-action-robotech-movie-in-the-works/Sep 9th 2007 6:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/09/live-action-robotech-movie-in-the-works/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/09/live-action-robotech-movie-in-the-works/Sep 9th 2007 6:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/09/live-action-robotech-movie-in-the-works/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/09/live-action-robotech-movie-in-the-works/Sep 9th 2007 7:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/09/live-action-robotech-movie-in-the-works/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/09/live-action-robotech-movie-in-the-works/
As exciting as a live-action movie would be, it is also frightening...please don't screw this up, Tobey...]]>Sep 9th 2007 7:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/09/live-action-robotech-movie-in-the-works/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/09/live-action-robotech-movie-in-the-works/Sep 9th 2007 8:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/09/live-action-robotech-movie-in-the-works/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/09/live-action-robotech-movie-in-the-works/Sep 9th 2007 10:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/09/live-action-robotech-movie-in-the-works/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/09/live-action-robotech-movie-in-the-works/
I like Toby and all, but Rick is supposedly a fresh-faced 17 year old at the beginning of the series. babyface or no, he's getting a little long in the tooth to be filling that flight suit at this point. No way he could play Folker either... that sort of character requires someone more like Val Kilmer in Tombstone: playful gambling alcoholic ladies man on the ground, cold blooded fearless ace fighter jock in the cockpit. Edward James Almos would make a badass Admiral Gloval though. ]]>Sep 9th 2007 6:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/09/live-action-robotech-movie-in-the-works/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/09/live-action-robotech-movie-in-the-works/Sep 9th 2007 11:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/09/live-action-robotech-movie-in-the-works/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/09/live-action-robotech-movie-in-the-works/
As much as I would love to see how they would do Alphas and Cyclones, I think the story for the original Do You Remember Love would make a better live action movie. The Geek Starts Now!]]>Sep 10th 2007 2:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/09/live-action-robotech-movie-in-the-works/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/09/live-action-robotech-movie-in-the-works/Sep 9th 2007 6:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/09/live-action-robotech-movie-in-the-works/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/09/live-action-robotech-movie-in-the-works/Sep 9th 2007 8:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/09/live-action-robotech-movie-in-the-works/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/09/live-action-robotech-movie-in-the-works/Sep 10th 2007 12:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/09/live-action-robotech-movie-in-the-works/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/09/live-action-robotech-movie-in-the-works/Sep 9th 2007 6:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/09/live-action-robotech-movie-in-the-works/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/09/live-action-robotech-movie-in-the-works/Sep 9th 2007 6:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/09/live-action-robotech-movie-in-the-works/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/09/live-action-robotech-movie-in-the-works/Sep 9th 2007 7:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/09/live-action-robotech-movie-in-the-works/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/09/live-action-robotech-movie-in-the-works/Sep 9th 2007 7:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/09/live-action-robotech-movie-in-the-works/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/09/live-action-robotech-movie-in-the-works/i wonder if our granchildren are going to complain about us being too geeky as our parents did...

anyway, i kinda understand that transformers was "dumbed down", since it was never anything but an animated toy commercial, but robotech is something quite different, even the stitched version, so maguire better dont dissapoint us, or our revenge will be swift and geek
:P]]>Sep 9th 2007 8:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/09/live-action-robotech-movie-in-the-works/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/09/live-action-robotech-movie-in-the-works/Sep 9th 2007 10:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/09/live-action-robotech-movie-in-the-works/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/09/live-action-robotech-movie-in-the-works/Sep 9th 2007 11:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/09/live-action-robotech-movie-in-the-works/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/09/live-action-robotech-movie-in-the-works/Sep 10th 2007 12:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/09/live-action-robotech-movie-in-the-works/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/09/live-action-robotech-movie-in-the-works/Sep 10th 2007 12:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/09/live-action-robotech-movie-in-the-works/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/09/live-action-robotech-movie-in-the-works/
I would prefer to see a movie based on Battletech or MechWarrior. I always thought those transforming airplane-type Mechs were pretty lame. I preverred the chicken walkers, myself.

Madcats, Mauraders and Shadowcats, Oh My!]]>Sep 15th 2007 3:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/09/live-action-robotech-movie-in-the-works/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/09/live-action-robotech-movie-in-the-works/Sep 10th 2007 12:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/09/live-action-robotech-movie-in-the-works/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/09/live-action-robotech-movie-in-the-works/
My younger brother had an Alpha and a Beta (we lived in Germany as kids, I think he got the Beta in Italy). Anyway, my mom made him sell them at a yardsale when we moved. He cried.

Now I cry....]]>Sep 10th 2007 2:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/09/live-action-robotech-movie-in-the-works/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/09/live-action-robotech-movie-in-the-works/
http://macrossworld.com/mwf/index.php?showtopic=22436&hl=beta

Pretty sweet.]]>Sep 9th 2007 6:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/09/live-action-robotech-movie-in-the-works/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/09/live-action-robotech-movie-in-the-works/Sep 9th 2007 6:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/09/live-action-robotech-movie-in-the-works/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/09/live-action-robotech-movie-in-the-works/Sep 9th 2007 6:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/09/live-action-robotech-movie-in-the-works/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/09/live-action-robotech-movie-in-the-works/It is hard to imagine them being able to do something similar with Robotech. I personally hope we'll get something along the lines of Stargate and Farscape, or at least something a little better than Starship Troopers though perhaps with a similar feel.]]>Sep 10th 2007 8:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/09/live-action-robotech-movie-in-the-works/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/09/live-action-robotech-movie-in-the-works/Wait. That came out wrong.

]]>Sep 9th 2007 6:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/09/live-action-robotech-movie-in-the-works/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/09/live-action-robotech-movie-in-the-works/
I had a Transformer in the mid-80s that looked just like it called "Jetfire", I believe. He was soo much larger than all my other Transformers that I thought he wasn't actually meant to be a Transformer toy.

Just curious.]]>Sep 9th 2007 6:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/09/live-action-robotech-movie-in-the-works/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/09/live-action-robotech-movie-in-the-works/
The Jetfire/Skyfire toy was essentially a Macross toy grafted onto the Transformers line (many Transformers were actually transformable robots from various toylines, etc.).]]>Sep 9th 2007 7:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/09/live-action-robotech-movie-in-the-works/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/09/live-action-robotech-movie-in-the-works/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VF-1_Valkyrie]]>Sep 9th 2007 7:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/09/live-action-robotech-movie-in-the-works/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/09/live-action-robotech-movie-in-the-works/Sep 9th 2007 7:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/09/live-action-robotech-movie-in-the-works/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/09/live-action-robotech-movie-in-the-works/Sep 9th 2007 7:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/09/live-action-robotech-movie-in-the-works/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/09/live-action-robotech-movie-in-the-works/
Me thinks though, that Robotech would be better served as a mini-series (a true mini-series like Taken, not BSG).

Also, the only part I could see Tobey as, is Max Sterling. He pulls off that nerdy look quite well. I can't see him as Rick or Roy.]]>Sep 9th 2007 7:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/09/live-action-robotech-movie-in-the-works/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/09/live-action-robotech-movie-in-the-works/Sep 9th 2007 7:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/09/live-action-robotech-movie-in-the-works/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/09/live-action-robotech-movie-in-the-works/Sep 9th 2007 7:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/09/live-action-robotech-movie-in-the-works/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/09/live-action-robotech-movie-in-the-works/Sep 9th 2007 7:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/09/live-action-robotech-movie-in-the-works/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/09/live-action-robotech-movie-in-the-works/
More important is the treatment such a film deserves. My take on it is this: The team producing SiFi channel's Battlestar Galactica should produce this as a series, or at least a mini series. This team creates a high level of intensity and excellent character development, both hallmarks of the Robotech I remember.

I second the nomination of E J Olmos for the Admiral!]]>Sep 10th 2007 1:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/09/live-action-robotech-movie-in-the-works/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/09/live-action-robotech-movie-in-the-works/
I too was scarred once I found out it had been the child of three spliced together Japanese cartoons. I always wondered why in the middle segment the "remains" of the SDF-1 were grassy mesas...(WTF?!?)... The fact that they never quite pinned down what protoculture was by the end of Mospeada always bothered me as well.

There were countless hours of research dedicated to finding out whatever I could about Robotech and Gundam.

As such, when I say they couldn't even pull off an animated movie sequel (The Sentinels) or a sequel series, I shudder to think what could become of a live-action movie. Harmony Gold and ADV will inevitable have a hand in it, so don't think they won't.

In the least, it had better follow the main storyline, unlike the videogames (GBA game excluded, though it was bad...). Couldn't care less about Jack Archer...]]>Sep 9th 2007 7:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/09/live-action-robotech-movie-in-the-works/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/09/live-action-robotech-movie-in-the-works/Sep 9th 2007 7:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/09/live-action-robotech-movie-in-the-works/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/09/live-action-robotech-movie-in-the-works/Sep 9th 2007 8:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/09/live-action-robotech-movie-in-the-works/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/09/live-action-robotech-movie-in-the-works/Sep 9th 2007 8:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/09/live-action-robotech-movie-in-the-works/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/09/live-action-robotech-movie-in-the-works/
Ok, now that that is over, I really, REALLY hope Toby doesn't screw this up. I'm tired of hoping directors/producers won't screw things up, but I'm really hoping in this case. Transformers was a movie I loved, but I took it for what its worth, a transformers remake, not TRANSFORMERS. I hope that this one can be something more legitimate than the empty headed popcorn fun shell that was transformers.]]>Sep 9th 2007 9:09PM