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Live-action Robotech movie in the works
Not sure if he'd be playing Rick Hunter, Roy Fokker, or even (gasp!) Breetai, but according to the Hollywood Reporter, Tobey Maguire is going to produce, and possibly star in, a live-action movie based on the Robotech TV series which pretty became the entire focus of my life when I was in 5th grade. (You seriously don't want to know how much of my spare time I devoted to tracking down even the most mundane details about the SDF-1, Veritech fighters, the Invid, and protoculture -- or to futilely trying to find a long-rumored VBF-1A Beta fighter to go with the die-cast plastic VAF-6 Alpha fighter I'd bought). Anyone who got into the show in the mid-Eighties will tell you that Robotech had a level of depth and realism well beyond that of any other animated series on US television at the time, which isn't at all surprising considering its Japanese origins (Robotech is credited with helping introduce anime to American audiences). Anyway, hopefully Tobey won't dumb things down like Michael Bay did with the Transformers movie. It was tough enough discovering a few years later that the entire show was actually three entirely different Japanese anime series awkwardly grafted together so that they'd have enough episodes for syndication in the US market -- turning Robotech into yet another mindless action fest might just be too much to take.
Spider-Man 3 cast lend their voices to the game
Similar to the previous games based on the film franchise, Spider-Man 3 will have actors from the movie adding their voices to the game.Joining Tobey "Spidey" Maguire are James Franco (New Goblin, not pictured), Topher Grace (Venom), Thomas Haden Church (Sandman) and J.K. Simmons (J. Jonah Jameson). B-movie idol Bruce Campbell, who has a cameo in all the movies, will reprise his role as the narrator of the game, as he has done for the two previous titles.The report from Reuters indicates that the Spider-Man 3 game -- coming to Wii, Xbox 360, PS3, PS2, PC, GBA, DS, and PSP -- will swing into store shelves before the film's debut May 4.[Via Kikizo]
