{"id":26968,"date":"2024-11-01T14:07:11","date_gmt":"2024-11-01T18:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=26968"},"modified":"2024-11-01T14:08:24","modified_gmt":"2024-11-01T18:08:24","slug":"jim-mickle-reportedly-directing-new-live-action-gundam-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=26968","title":{"rendered":"Jim Mickle Reportedly Directing New Live-Action &#8216;Gundam&#8217; Film"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p class=\"p1\">\u00a9Courtesy of Sunrise\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0585344\/\">Jim Mickle<\/a> is reportedly set to write and direct <em><strong>Gundam<\/strong><\/em>, a new live-action film being created for Sunrise and Legendary Pictures. As reported in <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2024\/10\/gundam-movie-sweet-tooth-jim-mickle-1236163584\/\"><em>Deadline<\/em>,<\/a> production is expected to begin in early 2025, though few details are known about content.<br \/><br \/>Mickle, the showrunner for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt12809988\/\"><em><strong>Sweet Tooth<\/strong><\/em><\/a>, will be producing the film with Linda Moran via their Nightshade entity. Originally, it had been announced that Jordan Vogt-Roberts (of <em><strong>Kong: Skull Island<\/strong><\/em>) would be directing the project, together with scriptwriter Brian K. Vaughan, the comic-book author. Netflix had initially hoped to stream the film worldwide.<br \/><br \/>Having made his anime debut with <em><strong>Stake Land<\/strong><\/em>, which won the Midnight Madness award at the Toronto International Film Festival, Mickle later directed <em><strong>We Are What We Are<\/strong><\/em>, which was shown at both the Sundance and Cannes film festivals. He also created <em><strong>Cold in July<\/strong><\/em>, another Sundance and Cannes offering, as well as the <em><strong>Hap and Leonard<\/strong><\/em> series for Sundance TV and AMC.<\/p>\r\n<p><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1774669342741533\" data-ad-slot=\"1211148813\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\u00a0<br \/><br \/>The global <em><strong>Gundam<\/strong> <\/em>franchise was created by Yoshiyuki Tomino and Hajime Yatate. It includes 83 animated series as well as a retail business for toys and other products. Total revenues are more than $600 million annually. The upcoming film will be its first live-action venture. <br \/><br \/>Two seasons of an earlier offering, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0159172\/\"><em><strong>Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch From Mercury<\/strong><\/em><\/a>, are being streamed via Crunchyroll. In these episodes, Suletta Mercury is helped by the Gundum Aerial, a robot that gives her an advantage in combat, though she must conceal its true identity since such robots are illegal in her universe.<br \/><br \/>The CG-animated series <em><strong>Gundam: Requiem For Vengeance<\/strong><\/em>, was recently released on Netflix. The series described the antagonisms revealed in the original anime that pitted Amuro and Charo against each other.<br \/><br \/>With merchandising in mind, Premium Bandai is releasing new gear on behalf of the franchise, including jackets that have been inspired by Suletta Mercury and Miorine Rembran. The garments, priced at about US$370, have been described as offering a \u201csleek, fashionable look\u201d for wearers. They are being produced by Alpha Industries, a major supplier to the US military for more than half a century.<br \/><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/author\/edward-moran\/\">Check out more of Edward\u2019s articles<\/a><\/p>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1774669342741533\" data-ad-slot=\"1211148813\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a9Courtesy of Sunrise\u00a0 Jim Mickle is reportedly set to write and direct Gundam, a new live-action film being created for Sunrise and Legendary Pictures. As reported in Deadline, production is expected to begin in early 2025, though few details are known about content. Mickle, the showrunner for Sweet Tooth, will be producing the film with&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":26996,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,20471],"tags":[504,24872,505,24035,24874,24875,24876,24873],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Jim Mickle Reportedly Directing New Live-Action &#039;Gundam&#039; Film<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Jim Mickle is reportedly set to write and direct Gundam, a new live-action film being created for Sunrise and Legendary Pictures.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=26968\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Jim Mickle Reportedly Directing New Live-Action &#039;Gundam&#039; 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