Having served as the main director of Marvel Studios’ recent “Hawkeye” limited series, Rhys Thomas has now been set to direct the “Robotech” film adaptation at Sony Pictures.
The story is based on the 1980s cartoon series from Harmony Gold and Tatsunoko Productions which was re-edited and re-dialogued to combine three different Japanese anime series and allow producers enough episodes to air as a daily syndicated series.
It unfolds in a time when Earth has developed giant robots from the technology of an alien spacecraft that crashed on a South Pacific island. The technology proves useful when humanity has to fend off a wave of alien invasions.
The film is currently in development with the script by Art Marcum & Matt Holloway and a rewrite by Brian Gatewood and Alessandro Tanaka. Mark Canton and Gianni Nunnari will produce.
Source: Deadline
