Exclusive: Famed comic book creator and New York Times bestselling author Brian K.
Vaughan has signed on to write the screenplay for Gundam, the first live-action film based on the popular Mecha anime and science fiction media franchise created by Sunrise.
The project hails from Legendary Entertainment, in a co-production with Sunrise.
Vaughan, best known for creating comic book series like Y: The Last Man, Ex Machina, and Runaways, will also serve as an executive producer on the pic.Next month marks the 40th anniversary of Mobile Suit Gundam, the mecha anime series that launched the Gundam success story as both a media and toy franchise.
That 1979 series, created and directed by Yoshiyuki Tomino, was a middling success when first aired but then won over an impassioned fan following through reruns and a popular tie-in toy line.Tomino’s animated saga was part of the mecha genre, the sci-fi subgenre
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