After spending the better part of fifteen years in various stages of development hell, Sony Pictures and Harmony Gold’s long-planned Hollywood live-action adaptation of the Robotech franchise now has a director attached, with the Hollywood daily Deadline reporting that Marvel’s Hawkeye TV series director Rhys Thomas has now been set to direct the long-stalled film.
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Let’s hope that the film manages to be completed this time around, if only to cement Big West’s change of heart that allowed it, Robotech and Macross to co-exist after years of bitter litigation.