Robotech Live-Action Movie Recruits Wonder Woman Writer

Sony ’s live - actionRobotechmovie to bedirected by Andy Muschiettihas recruitedWonder Womanwriter Jason Fuchs . yield onRobotechwill reportedly not lead off until after Muschietti has finished makingIT : Chapter Two , the subsequence to his smash hit horror movieIT .

Robotechbegan living in 1985 as an 85 - episode gum anime serial cobbled together from three disjoined Japanese series and dubbed into English . The story set far in the future necessitate a war between humans and aliens , which see the humans fortify themselves with automatic technologies reverse - engineered from the remnants of a crash alien spacecraft . Several animated movies followed the serial publication , and a live - action adaptation began to be developed in 2007 with Tobey Maguire originally sequester . At a later stage , James Wan was involvedwith the projection before leaving to consecrate himself toAquaman .

At one time Lawrence Kasdan was reportedly hired to publish aRobotechscript , but many year and production teams have overtake since that iteration of the task , and now the undertaking of writingRobotechwill diminish to Jason Fuchs , as reported byDeadline . Fuchs and Muschietti will reportedly make theirRobotechfrom abrasion .

Klaus Fuchs received his first big screenwriting assignment on the reanimate filmIce Age : Continental Drift . His original screenplayPan , a Peter Pan prequel , became a Black List playscript and amount to the cover direct by Joe Wright . Fuchsreceived a fib by creditfor working alongside Zack Snyder and Allan Heinberg on the screenplay forWonder Woman , which break on to become a summertime blockbuster , gross $ 816 million worldwide ( so far ) . The seek - after Fuchs is also involved in writingLuna Parkfor Doug Liman and Tom Cruise andMinecraft : The Moviefor Warner Bros.

After the bottom fell out of the similarTransformersfranchise this summertime , it ’s fairish to require whether the window may have closed forRobotechto be a executable large - just the ticket performer for Sony . If the familiarTransformersfranchise can no longer draw people in to determine gargantuan robot absorb in volatile battles , what ground is there to believe a movie ground on an obscure ' 80s anime series can reverse that ? The future tense of the mecha / giant robot sub - genre ( such as it is ) may calculate on the performance ofPacific Rim : revolt , which is arrange to hit theaters in former 2018 .

Even withITdirector Andy Muschietti and one of the writers of the wildly successfulWonder Womanon circuit card , Robotechcould evidence to be a tough sell . Sony does n’t exactly have the best data track - record when it comes to developing blockbusters , having failed withGhostbusters , PassengersandThe Dark Towerjust to name a few late examples .