Netflix has officially announced 11 cast members for the upcoming live-action film based on the Gundam franchise.
The streamer revealed that filming for the forthcoming movie has just begun in Queensland, Australia, and also shared 11 main cast members who are a part of the project: Sydney Sweeney, Noah Centineo, Sioli Kutsuna, Jackson White, Michael Mando, Nonso Anozie, Oleksandr Rudynskyi, Javon “Wanna” Walton, Jason Isaacs, Gemma Chua-Tran, and Ida Brooke.
The biggest names involved with the film are, of course, Sweeney, famous for her role in HBO’s Euphoria (and more recently her assorted controversies); and Centineo, who’s starred in Netflix’s The Recruit and A24’s Warfare. Their involvement in the film been previously announced, along with Kutsuna, Mando, and Chua-Tran.
According to Netflix’s Tudum, the live-action Gundam film will center around an “original story that follows rival mech pilots fighting on opposite sides of a decades-long war between Earth and its space-faring colonies.”
“As shifting allegiances and a growing threat set them on a collision course for one another, they’re pulled into a high-stakes race across the stars that could define the fate of humanity,” reads the description.
Netflix acquired the Gundam film in January. The film is being produced by Legendary Pictures in partnership with Bandai Namco. There’s no word yet on when it will be released.
Yoshiyuki Tomino created the Mobile Suit Gundam series, which began with a TV anime in 1979. It went on to define what’s known as the “real robot” mecha anime genre. The series has spawned more than 50 TV series and films, plus manga series, novels, and video games.
