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EXCLUSIVE: Netflix and Legendary person kicked disconnected accumulation connected their live-action Gundam movie, adding six to nan cast: Jackson White (Tell Me Lies), Nonso Anozie (Sweet Tooth), Javon ‘Wanna’ Walton (Under nan Bridge), Oleksandr Rudynskyi (The Agency), Ida Brooke (Dune: Part Three), and Jason Isaacs (The White Lotus).
Character specifications are nether wraps. As antecedently announced Sydney Sweeney and Noah Centineo lead nan ensemble, which arsenic we reported, besides includes Shioli Kutsuna, Michael Mando, and Gemma Chua-Tran.
Gundam is nan long-running multimedia franchise from Bandai Namco Filmworks that pioneered nan sci-fi subgenre known arsenic “mecha,” revolving astir elephantine fighting robots. While crippled specifications for nan movie person antecedently been kept nether wraps, we’re now told that it follows rival mech pilots fighting connected opposing sides of a decades-long warfare betwixt Earth and its erstwhile abstraction colonies. As shifting allegiances and a increasing threat group them connected a collision people for 1 another, they’re pulled into a high-stakes title crossed nan stars that could determine nan destiny of humanity.
Produced by Legendary Pictures successful business pinch Bandai Namco Filmworks, this Gundam movie will beryllium nan first successful live-action. Production is taking spot successful Queensland, Australia, pinch Sweet Tooth showrunner Jim Mickle directing from his ain book and producing alongside his partner Linda Moran done their accumulation institution Nightshade, on pinch Cale Boyter, Ali Mendes, Sweeney, Centineo, and Enzo Marc. Executive producers are Matthew Jenkins, Makoto Asanuma, and Naohiro Ogata. We were first to study connected Netflix moving to get nan movie successful January.
White is repped by Untitled Entertainment and Schreck Rose Dapello; Anozie by Garricks, Authentic Talent and Literary Management, and Hansen, Jacobson, Teller; Walton by Paradigm and Brillstein Entertainment Partners; Rudynskyi by Crawford Talents; Brooke by Gersh, Tales Talent Management, and Myman Greenspan Fox; and Isaacs by Gersh, Independent Talent Group, and Strand Entertainment.
