Looks like the veteran writing team of Alfred Gough and Miles Millar have been given the job to pen the film adaptation of Robotech.
“Robotech” was a 1980s cartoon series from Harmony Gold USA and Tatsunoko Prods. It was re-edited and re-dialogued to combine three Japanese anime series to give the producers enough episodes to air as a daily syndicated series.
A sprawling sci-fi epic, Robotech takes place at a time when Earth has developed giant robots from the technology on an alien spacecraft that crashed on a South Pacific isle. Mankind is forced to use the technology to fend off an alien invasion, with the fate of the human race ending up in the hands of two young pilots.
I kinda dodged out on the Robotech fascination in the 80s simply because I was more an avid fan of the Force Five cartoons. But nobody remembers the five shows that made up the Force Five rotation, and Robotech ws far more popular.
I was exposed to enough of it to understand it as most of my friends were rabid Robojunkies. I think with today’s technology and the designs and visuals we were given with Robotech will translate well into a blockbuster film. And at its heart, Robotech was just as much action and combat as it was a love story with Rick Hunter and Minmei, so bringing on story scribes like the Gough Millar team looks to be a good fit.
I became a big fan of Smallville (after I wrapped my head around the whole “this is not cannon” thing) and Gough Millar ran that show for some of its best years.
