The official Gundam Info website and anime studio SUNRISE announced on June 4 that the newest Gundam film Mobile Suit Gundam Hathaway, written by franchise co-creator Yoshiyuki Tomino, would be halting its launch in Japanese cinemas “under the current circumstances of the novel coronavirus outbreaks.”
Hathaway’s Flash was written by Tomino, one of the original creators of the first Mobile Suit Gundam TV anime who served as director, as a sequel to his 1988 novel Mobile Suit Gundam Char’s Counterattack – Beltorchika Children (based on his rejected first draft for the 1988 film Mobile Suit Gundam Char’s Counterattack), and published for three volumes from Kadokawa Sneaker Bunko from 1989 to 1990.
The film was scheduled to be released in Japan on June 23.