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Sylvain White Interested in ROBOTECH Adaptation

I faintly recall first hearing Tobey Maguire’s name attached to the project as a producer. Bringing the popular ROBOTECH universe to the big screen as a live-action adaptation is a bold endeavor, but it seems like its been eons since then. Fear not, fans of the franchise, because the project apparently survives.

The big news currently, dug up by IESB while at WonderCon, is that Sylvain White is interested in directing the film. Best known for directing STOMP THE YARD, Sylvain White is fast becoming a renewed and hot commodity. His next film due out in theaters is THE LOSERS, a film based upon a DC graphic novel that looks, well… totally bad-ass! White is also apparently being rumored as a possible director for Frank Miller’s RONIN.

But I digress… ROBOTECH (the movie) will apparently be based upon the first generation of the Macross Saga. Sylvain White is a fan who grew up watching the series as a boy in France. According to IESB, White seems excited to be considered for the project, having received a draft of the script, but admits nothing is official and the film itself is not yet greenlit.

Source: IESB.net

Lawrence Kasdan writing ‘Robotech’ script

Writer-director Lawrence Kasdan has been brought on to write the script for the live-action feature adaptation of the Robotech anime series. You may recognize this name as the writer and director of the best Star Wars episode The Empire Strikes Back. Kasdan also wrote the screenplays for Return of the Jedi and Raiders of the Lost Ark.

Warner Bros and Maguire Entertainment, Tobey Maguire’s production company, are working to bring this animated favorite from the 80’s to life. With Kasdan’s well-versed pen in hand, I feel we may just have a really cool movie in the works. Maguire is only rumored to be starring, but with him in a producer role, I’m sure he’ll get first dibs.

[ A sprawling sci-fi epic, “Robotech” takes place at a time when Earth has developed giant robots from the technology on an alien spacecraft that crashed on a South Pacific isle. Mankind is forced to use the technology to fend off three successive waves of alien invasions. The first invasion centers on a battle with a race of giant warriors who seek to retrieve their flagship’s energy source known as “protoculture,” and the planet’s hope for survival ends up in the hands of two young pilots.] — The Hollywood Reporter