With Imagi studios quitting the animation game (at least from their own studios) the Gatchaman movie may never see a silver screen.
But as a glimmer of hope, and a tease of what likely will never be, the footage of an early production trailer has found its way online.
My heart skipped a geeky beat, and when it was over I was washed with sadness that this movie wont likely happen now with Kevin Munroe and Paul Dini leaving the project over creative differences.
This was my first fandom. In North America we got the toned down version titled Battle of the Planets, but everyone I ever knew called it G-Force.
I have a very special spot in my soul for this series, and it was looking to shape up into a hell of an animated feature, appropriately updating the look of the characters to be future cool which I thought was going to be the hardest part of adapting this.
The music sounds a little video gamey, and those badguys have the absolute WORST aim. Like 80s GiJoe aim. Automatic weapons riddling the area where two guys are standing still and not one glancing shot. Were you trying to miss?
Anyways, it looks super cool, but sadly will likely never happen unless Imagi pulls their pants up and gets it finished just so it doesn’t go to waste.
