Adam B. Vary Senior Entertainment WriterFrom giant apes to giant robots: Filmmaker Jordan Vogt-Roberts (“Kong: Skull Island”) is set to direct and produce a live-action adaptation of wildly popular anime series “Gundam” for Legendary and Netflix, the streamer announced on Monday.Famed comic book writer Brian K.
Vaughan (“Y: The Last Man”) is writing the screenplay and will executive produce. Legendary’s Cale Boyter is overseeing the project, along with Sunrise, the Japanese animation studio behind the “Gundam” franchise.
Legendary will distribute the film theatrically in China.There is no word on what the story will be for the film, but there certainly is a wealth of material to choose from.
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