Lawrence Kasdan to Pen ROBOTECH
By: Jarrod SarafinDate: Monday, June 16, 2008
Source: CHUD, Hollywood Reporter
Screenwriter-producer Lawrence Kasdan has another high profile project to focus on in his writing agenda. The man who scripted The Empire Strikes Back, Raiders of the Lost Ark and is currently working on a screenplay for the Clash of the Titans remake (due 2010) has also been confirmed to be penning Robotech, a big screen adaptation of the 80's television series. The original news broke by way of Devin over at Chud.
Akiva Goldsman and Chuck Roven are joining Tobey Maguire and Drew Crevello for the Warner Bros. project.
Plot Concept: A sprawling sci-fi epic, "Robotech" takes place at a time when Earth has developed giant robots from the technology on an alien spacecraft that crashed on a South Pacific isle. Mankind is forced to use the technology to fend off three successive waves of alien invasions. The first invasion centers on a battle with a race of giant warriors who seek to retrieve their flagship's energy source known as "protoculture," and the planet's hope for survival ends up in the hands of two young pilots.
"Robotech" was a 1980s cartoon series from Harmony Gold USA and Tatsunoko Prods. It was re-edited and re-dialogued to combine three Japanese anime series to give the producers enough episodes to air as a daily syndicated series.
