It seems in late 2012 or early 2013, Harmony Gold will be releasing a new ROBOTECH movie! The title is called '
Love Live Alive' and will take place in the post-REF operation to liberate Terra from the Invid. The main characters will be Lancer, Sera, and Rand has been mentioned. Given the title, will Harmony Gold be following it's classic pattern of using original Japanese animation but replacing the dialog?
Love Live Alive is nothing new to fans of
Genesis Climber MOSPEADA. In 1985, after
MOSPEADA was cancelled, the studio, seeing cult success of the TV series, came out with a flashback/music video movie that featured new animation mixed with old. The story centers around Yellow Dancer/Lancer touring the countryside in his Cyclone mecha, and finds a ruined city with a music stage. In this city, Yellow Dancer puts on a concert, gathering survives of the Invid horror, including old friends.
So, is this new ROBOTECH work a re-dub of the 1985 OVA? Rumors around the ROBOTECH sites have said that it the American production will mix new animation, in the style of
the Shadow Chronicles, with some plot elements of the original Japanese OVA film. There is talk of actual footage of the SDF-2 and it destruction, along with Dana Sterling appearing in some role, possibly during her involvement during the Invid Invasion. Word around the campfire is that most of the original voice actors will resume their roles, and this could be seen has rounding out the third generation of the Robotech Wars. Is this a good thing for ROBOTECH? Maybe. This could be very cool if Harmony Gold makes a flashback OVA with fresh footage of the things that ROBOTECH fans have been wanting to see for decades, like the SDF-2. But why is Harmony Gold wasting time, money, and talent on this project? We have the
Shadow Chronicles and
the Sentients that could use the attention, not some recycled 1985 music video OVA
that gives the fans little in the way of something bold for the ROBOTECH universe. But I'll watch it because it is ROBOTECH. Sigh.
The reason HG is doing this little project is because shadows rising will not be developed until Warner brothers know what they are going to do about the live action film. So to make up for it this is the little side project. Dana might still make an appearance but given that her voice actress died I do not know. The word on the sites is that this might include some parts of TSC at least on the terra part. So as to make it canon i believe.
ReplyDeleteI'm afraid of a live-action ROBOTECH film...some fans think that we will get something like Transformers, but I wish it was closer to Battle:LA. I still maintain that when I win the lottery, I'm talking to Harmony Gold and putting the Sentients out!
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it is a shame but the big problem with Robotech is the legal lawsuit because if many of you´ve noticed HG wants the logos of macross and for me it will be ilegal because it belongs to Japanese special Shoji Kawamori and Haruiko mikimoto believe it or not, Carl Macek lets a legacy but we are not in eighties actually they used a product already finish in that epoch , but i consider that HG should create a new series using the new creative of the screem player and designer of this time with new logos,mechas and storylines because they are interesting to keep the sight and rights on Macross and the great majority of the people confused Macross with Robotech but each universe is pretty different
ReplyDeleteI would love to know what the decision making process was for the Japanese selling the Macross and the other Super Dimensional series to HG. It is odd to me, to watch the sequels to the original 1983 Macross series, and see Roy Fokker and the rest of the bridge crew alive.
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