Bandai Namco Filmworks Inc. (Headquarters: Suginami-ku, Tokyo, President & CEO: Makoto Asanuma), a member of the Bandai Namco Group, and LEGENDARY (Headquarters: California, U.S.A.) have signed an settlement in January 2025 to co-finance “GUNDAM (tentative title)” (known as “GUNDAM”), a Hollywood live-action movie adaptation of the Cell Swimsuit Gundam collection.
Cell Swimsuit Gundam, which started broadcasting in 1979, established the style of “actual robotic anime” that might not be described by way of easy good and evil, which had been the pattern of robotic anime as much as that time, with reasonable depictions of warfare, detailed scientific examinations, and intricately interwoven human dramas that handled robots as “weapons” referred to as “cell fits,” and triggered an enormous growth.
Since then, as a protracted operating collection, 25 anime collection, 34 films, 27 OVAs, streaming content material, event-exclusive footage, TV specials, and so on. have been produced, and over its lengthy historical past as much as the current, it has gained loads of followers around the globe.
Created by Yoshiyuki Tomino, Gundam is an internationally famend franchise with big selection of product and repair classes along with the content material, producing over $900 million yearly. This can be its first live-action movie.
Produced by Legendary Footage, and the movie is directed and written by Jim Mickle (“Candy Tooth”). The movie can be launched worldwide in theaters. We plan to steadily announce particulars as they turn out to be finalized.
As well as, Bandai Namco Filmworks America, LLC (BNFA), a North American subsidiary, can be established on April 1, 2025 for the manufacturing of GUNDAM. BNFA will turn out to be an entirely owned subsidiary of Bandai Namco Holdings USA Inc., the North American regional administration firm of the Bandai Namco Group, and can work along with Bandai Namco Filmworks Inc. to develop its licensing enterprise and the model worth of the Gundam collection abroad.
Please sit up for the brand new challenges of the Gundam collection sooner or later.
