Oh hot damn. It’s like my childhood is being played out right before my eyes. When I was a kid, me and the other kids in my neighborhood didn’t play cowboys and indians. We didn’t play cops and robbers. No sir… we played G-Force (no, I’m not kidding). I always ended up playing Jason (if you’re super cool like me, then you’ll know who I’m talking about).
G-Force: Battle of the Planets (called Gatchaman in its Japanese incarnation) was my 3rd favorite cartoon growing up (just behind Starblazers and Transformers). Man I loved that show. And now it looks like a full animated film from the guy bringing us the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie is on it’s way! The guys over at Filmjunk give us this:
TMNT director Kevin Munroe will also direct the Gatchaman movie, which will remain true to the original Japanese show.
“The whole point of it is to up the bar from what Turtles is… It’s a different movie completely so it’s kind of fun although it has teenagers and ninjas. Other than that, it’s completely different.” says Munroe. From the sounds of it, they’re interested in making it a little more adult-oriented as well. Producer Thomas Gray had this to add: “We put it on the pants on this one. This is going to be a very interesting film and even maybe pushing R.”
Oh my sweet goodness, you should see the stupid grin on my face right now. I think I’ll start looking up the old gang to see if they wanna break out the capes and glass bowl helmets again. I call Jason!!
