But it looks like live-action Gundam is indeed a go, as the project now has not only a director and screenwriter, but also an online distributor: Netflix.
Taking the controls of the live-action Gundam is American director Jordan Vogt-Roberts, whose highest-profile project so far was directing 2017’s Kong: Skull Island.
And while this is indeed the first-ever “live-action feature film version of Sunrise’s Gundam for Netflix,” it’s not the first-ever live-action Gundam film, as that honor/shame goes to the Canadian-produced G-Saviour, which aired on Japanese TV in 1999.
The Gundam universe is replete with numerous storylines of love and conflict along with the popular Gundam battles, in which the characters operate robot suits called Mobile Suits.”