Warner Bros. is trying its luck with some "Spartan" filmmakers to help bring the iconic anime series "Robotech" to the big screen. Deadline is reporting that studio-based producers Hollywood Gang have hired "300" and "G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra" screenwriter Michael Gordon to write the script.
The producers are looking to bring "Mama" director Andrés Muschiett on board to helm the adaptation, but he's currently attached to the video game adaptation, "Shadow of the Colossus."
The classic '80s syndicated cartoon, which was actually created by re-editing three different Japanese anime series together, focused on an Earth defending itself from gigantic aliens with equally large robots built from downed enemy spaceships.
A film version of the series that introduced a generation of youngsters to the wonders of anime has been in the works at Warner Bros. for quite some time, but it never truly found its wings. In 2013, commercial-turned-feature director Nic Mathieu was supposed to sit in the director's chair, but that's clearly not the case any longer.
