Sony has plans for a series of Robotech movies.
This is whereRobotechis unique from many other series.
The reason that they seem drawn from life is because they grow and change before our eyes.
Max and Miriya meet as enemies, fall in love, get married, and have a child.
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Robotechis a long-form animated series.
Could you do all of this in one movie?
ThinkAmerican Popbut focused on how war affects the characters instead of music.
I would dig this approach, but I get the feeling Sony has other plans.
They want a franchise.
Who doesnt these days?
Robotech could fit the bill perfectly.
Plus it has giant transforming robots, which I hear are pretty popular.
Youve got spinoff potential with all of them, as the variousRobotechcomics and books have proven.
This is a huge universe.
The challenge inherent here is getting it right, particularly the span of time the series has to cover.
Some characters come and go out of the story.
Its the same problem once you hit theNew Generation Saga.
Most of the characters weve known are gone and are only referenced in passing.
Show Dana being born and her first meeting with Bowie Grant.
Lets see a young Scott Bernard on the SDF-3 or even Lunk fighting in theMasters Saga.
That isnt to say you’re gonna wanna abandon everyone.
Once theMacrosssaga is over you could adaptThe Sentinelsconcurrently withMastersand have two series of films going on at once.
Its just juggling all these pieces that will be tough.
Marvel is always the go to example, but its because theyve more or less perfected it.
EachRobotechmovie would be covering months or even years of conflict.
This isnt a story with one big bad guy they have to defeat.
This is a war with skirmishes; battles won and lost that take their toll on our characters.
Which also brings up another challenge.
Theamountof characters.Robotechis an ensemble with well over a dozen main characters making up theMacrosssaga alone.
But with that you only really get how the war affects Rick.
Keep in mind; the robots inRobotechare not characters like they are inTransformers.
Theyre not as important as the characters themselves.
His crush on Minmei distracts him from approaching enemy vessels and hes injured because of it.
More seriously, theres also the death of a major character half way through theMacrosssaga that profoundly changes Rick.
But that isnt what the series is about.
You cant do that in one movie.
You cant do it in three.Robotechneeds to be a franchise to tell the story properly.
