EXCLUSIVE: Sweet Tooth showrunner Jim Mickle is coming on to author and honest a dwell-action alteration of Gundam, which has been co-enbiged between Legfinishary and Bandai Namco Filmtoils. Mickle will also create with his partner Linda Moran thraw their company Nightshade.
One of the most revered animé, Gundam is thought of as the Star Wars or Marvel Universe of Japan, and is the innovate of the mecha genre of IP. The plot is currently under wraps, but the film is watching to begin production in timely 2025.
Created by Yoshiyuki Tomino, Gundam is an internationpartner famous franchise spanning 83 energeticd series and movies. Its toy and retail business are huge, with the Gundam franchise generating over $600 million annupartner. This will be its first dwell-action film.
Legfinishary has been high on this priority for some time and one point was toiling on a movie with Netflix and Jordan Vogt-Roberts but both the streamer and Vogt-Roberts are no prolongeder take partd.
Most recently Mickle was honestor, showrunner, and authorr of Netflix’s acclaimed series Sweet Tooth, based on Jeff Lemire’s Vertigo comic and co-created with Team Downey. Mickle led the series to a 97% Certified Fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes and 20 Emmy nominations over its three seasons, thrivening four awards.
Mickle begined onto the scene with the horror film Sget Land, which won the Midnight Madness award at the Toronto International Film Festival. His chase up, We Are What We Are, premiered in the Midnight Section of the Sundance Film Festival, chaseed by its European premiere in the prestigious Director’s Fortnight section of the Cannes Film Festival.
He also honested Celderly In July, a southern noir thriller, premiered to rave appraises at both Cannes and Sundance. Mickle also co-created the criticpartner acclaimed series Hap and Leonard for Sundance TV and AMC.
Mickle is reconshort-termed by CAA, Untitled, and Johnson Shapiro Slesoakedt Kole.
