Robotech Coming to the Big Screen?

In my younger days, I loved the anime series Robotech. Of course, the first and third generations were the best. Don’t know what happened to the Southern Cross second generation, but I digress… I guess others loved the show too since it’s going to be remade into a movie starring Tobey Maguire.

How are they going to pull this off I don’t know. I guess computer animation has come a long ways. I haven’t watched the Transformers movie but did see some very realistic trailers. Can Robotech the movie realistically portray shape shifting Veritech Valkyries, Zentraedi Cyclops, and the massive SDF-1?

And who would you cast in the movie? Tobey Maguire will be Robotech hero, Rick Hunter. Who makes a good choice for Minmei and Lisa Hayes? I vote for either Val Kilmer or Tom Cruise reliving their Top Gun days as Commander Roy Fokker, leader of the Skull Squadron. Captain Gloval has to be Edward James Olmos who plays Admiral Adama on Battlestar Galactica. How about the human/Zentraedi couple of Max and Miriya? The psycho and obsessed Lord Khyron?

Catch up with the Robotech saga with the DVD collection, Robotech – Protoculture Collection.