Sony Pictures have finally found the director they want to bring their long-gestating adaptation of Japanese anime Robotech to the big-screen; Hawkeye‘s Rhys Thomas.
Having once been a project with Aquaman‘s James Wan at the helm, before Andy Muschietti took over the controls in 2017, Deadline report that Rhys Thomas, who did such a fantastic job on Disney+’s Hawkeye series, has been tasked with adapting a script that was initially submitted by Iron Man writers Art Marcum and Matt Holloway, and has been subject to a rewrite by Brian Gatewood and Alessandro Tanaka, who were responsible for 2011 Jonah Hill comedy The Sitter.
Robotech is based on the Harmony Gold USA series that first launched in 1985, featuring content edited together from three popular Japanese anime series in The Super Dimension Fortress Macross, Super Dimension Cavalry Southern Cross and Genesis Climber MOSPEADA, and takes place in a world in which humanity is fending off alien invasions using technology developed from an extra terrestrial starship that crashed in the South Pacific.
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