Kow Yokoyama created the universe alongside Hiroshi Ichimura and Kunitaka Imai.
The Hollywood Reporter’s Heat Vision blog reported on Wednesday that producers Roy Lee (It) and Scott Bernstein are producing a Hollywood film adaptation of Kow Yokoyama’s Maschinen Krieger ZbV3000 franchise.
The universe has inspired numerous model kits, toys, universe sourcebooks, and a short film by Tsuburaya Productions.
The universe began with the SF3D manga in Hobby Japan magazine in the early 1980s.