Netflix to Stream Live-Action Gundam Film; Jordan Vogt-Roberts to Direct
Napton and Sunrise Executive Expert for film production Ken Iyadomirevealed at a talk at a Project Anime industry presentation in March 2019, that the Pacific Rim: Uprising helped create the relationships between Sunrise and Legendary Pictures, and set the scene for talks about a Gundam film project. Iyadomi said that although contacting the right people for the deal was difficult, the CEO of Sunrise was very easy to convince. Another factor that made the negotiations easier was that Legendary had less people, so decisions could be made quicker. The "
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