Kong: Skull Island director withdraws
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There has been a big movement in the Hollywood live-action project of Japan's proud robot anime Mobile Suit Gundam. The production companies Legendary and Bandai Namco Filmworks had been working with Netflix to appoint Jordan Vogt-Roberts of Kong: Skull Island (2017) as director, but it appears that this has been changed. Netflix and Vogt-Roberts have already left the project, and Jim Michael of Sweet Tooth (2021-2024) has been appointed as the new director. Deadline reported.
Netflix's live-action Gundam project was announced in April 2021, and concept art had already been released. Director Vogt-Roberts, who is full of otaku passion, brought Gunpla from his parents' home and even came to Japan in the summer of 2023 to meet with Gundam creator Yoshiyuki Tomino. He also visited GUNDAM FACTORY YOKOHAMA in Yokohama, showing his enthusiastic side. Vogt-Roberts posted about these events on Instagram, but the account has now been deleted. For unknown reasons, Netflix and Vogt-Roberts have left the project. Michael will now be in charge of the project through his own production company, Nightshade.
The project is still being prepared as a live-action film, and the plot is unknown. Production is expected to begin in early 2025. The newly appointed Michael is an American born in 1979. He has worked on several indie horror and thriller works, such as "Cold Bullet" (2014), and has made a name for himself with Netflix's "In the Shadow of the Moon" (2019). Robert Downey Jr. also participated as executive producer of his representative work "Sweet Tooth." Regarding the live-action "Mobile Suit Gundam" film, he said, "I'm the one who can use Gundam the best," and we can look forward to seeing him create a film that will be loved by fans.
Source: Deadline
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