Tiny, Princess, Keyop, Mark and Jason get a 21st Century make-over in this teaser trailer for a new Gatchaman anime movie supposedly coming out next year.
Battle Of The Planets (aka Gatchaman) was a massive part of my childhood - before I knew anything about anime etc or even understood that this was an American re-edited version of a Japanese cartoon.
The studio working on the movie has this to say, on its website: "Imagi Studios' Gatchaman will be a cool superhero movie, set against the backdrop of an alien threat of world domination and the epic battle this ignites. To be brought to the big screen in spectacular stereoscopic 3D, this CG-animated motion picture will deliver a feast for the eyes in exceptional weaponry, distinctive strike vehicles and light-speed action sequences, all played against a dazzling futuristic visualization.
"Featuring stealthy ninja-style shadow fighting to grand-scale clashes, this fast-paced sci-fi action-thriller focuses on a lone-wolf maverick youth who, together with a team of teenage superheroes, finds his destiny in defending Earth against the dark forces of Galactor.
"Gatchaman is based on the hit 1970s Japanese television series from Tatsunoko Production, known in the West as G-Force or Battle of the Planets. It is presently in pre- production."
However, Imagi Studios appears to have had a lot of financial issues in the last year or so and there is a great deal of online confusion as to whether they are still in operation and still proceeding with this movie.
I'm keeping my fingers crossed - but not holding my breath!
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If this was even half as good as the Top Cow series (and it looks very inspired by it), it is a shame we'll probably never see it.
I think this is just going to end up being akin to Conan: Red Nails. What we saw looked good - but that is as much as we'll ever get.
Sadly, I fear your Conan analogy may be correct :(
I have the big box set of the BotP episodes and on the extras disk there was a short clip of a new Gatchman movie (it might be similar to the embedded one you've got in this post but I can't see it at work).
But I bought that box set years ago and the film never appeared. So I wouldn't hold your breath.
(I must admit that having been a big fan of BotP when I was kid, I've only watched about 1 and a half of the DVDs in that box set. It wasn't as wonderful as I remembered - at least not enough to get me to watch hours and hours).
Sadly that's often the way with things we thought were great when we were kids :(
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