'Robotech' Adaptation Animates Tobey Maguire
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Giant robot pic set up at Warner Bros.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, the "Spider-Man" star would produce the potential tentpole sci-fi feature through his Maguire Entertainment shingle.
Craig Zahler is attached to write the script.
"Robotech" premiered on U.S. television in 1985, the re-edited and redubbed spawn of three entirely different anime series -- "The Super Dimension Fortress Macross," "Super Dimension Cavalry Southern Cross" and "Genesis Climber Mospeada." The revised story focused on the discovery of an alien starship in a South Pacific island. The technology helped Earth develop huge transforming robots, which came in handy through a series of alien attacks.
Maguire would presumably play the show's main character, Rick Hunter, who began the series as an innocent teenaged aspiring pilot and eventually became a respected military commander.
In addition to its animated series run, "Robotech" has had a variety of other incarnations including several feature-length movies, a number of comic book lines, a collectible card game and several soundtracks and novelizations.
The "Robotech" pick-up may have just a wee bit to do with the $300-million-plus domestic gross for this summer's "Transformers" feature and developing plans to bring "Voltron" to the big screen.
Maguire has been dedicating most of his acting muscle to the "Spider-Man" franchise in recent years, scattering in only the occasional -- "Seabiscuit," "The Good German" -- additional acting vehicle. Maguire was a producer on "Seabiscuit" and also produced Spike Lee's "25th Hour."
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