The Robotech film we were teased with a while back with Toby Maguire producing seems to have drifted into the air into nothingness, but it looks like a new champion is waving the Macross flag.
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.
So it appears that Sylvain’s interest in the project IS the news, and while The Losers is looking to be a fun action romp, and its earning him the attention he needs to get involved in such projects, nothing is official more than his interest.
Maybe he will push forward and we will get a live action Robotech film series.
