[QUOTE][I]Spidey[/I]'s Maguire Dons [I]Robotech[/I]
[I]Spider-Man[/I] star Tobey Maguire will produce and may star in a film based on the classic SF anime [I]Robotech[/I], according to [I]The Hollywood Reporter[/I].
Warner Brothers Pictures picked up the rights to [I]Robotech[/I], which features giant robots known as mechas. Maguire is producing through his Maguire Entertainment banner and is eyeing the lead role in what the studio plans as an SF franchise a la Paramount's hit [I]Transformers[/I].
Drew Crevello also is producing through his Supercool Hollywood BigTime Productions. Craig Zahler has been tapped to write the screenplay.
[I]Robotech[/I] was a cartoon series during the 1980s from Harmony Gold USA and Tatsunoko Productions. 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.
[I]Robotech[/I] 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 three successive waves of alien invasions. The first invasion concerns a battle with a race of giant warriors who seek to retrieve their flagship's energy source, known as "protoculture," and the planet's survival ends up in the hands of two young pilots. [IMG]http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/images/spacer.gif[/IMG][/QUOTE]
Eh, Tobey Maguire? WTF?! :shock::roll::evil: