Live action Macross film

Just as long as he doesn't americanise Macross I'll be fine with him directing.

If I can mix Code Lyoko, Marvel and DC together.

This movie will never work. Robotech can't be done as a film because there is just too much in formation to try to cram into a 2 to 4 hour film. I highly doubt that the movie will even be up to 3 or 4 hours. It'll probably be more like 1 hour and 30 minutes to 2 hours, 2 hours and 30 minutes at the most. The movie will be missing so much. I think it would work better as a live action T.V. series. That way, every episode can cover everything that happened in an updated version of the 1980s anime television series. Every season would be identical to the anime episodes except for some minor changes in the story to vamp it up and not make it seem so dated. A lot of the stuff in Robotech is even outdated more than just stuck in its own time period. Like the fact that no one has a cell phone. It doesn't really seem important but trust me, little things like that make all the difference when you are trying to present some realism in your escapist fantasies. Then we have the ridiculously '80s plot device of a global thermonuclear war between the U.S.A. and their allies, and the U.S.S.R. and their allies in the year 19xx, I mean come on. There is a lot of work that needs to be done before a live action Robotech project can even get done. Plus, there is the whole Hollywood issue. You have a conundrum. You're damned if you do and you're damned if you don't. If you want Robotech to be sold to an American audience, it's going to need a lot of money, and only the richest directors, executive producers and producers can afford to spend a lot of money to get everything looking like it should. The writers of course will have to Americanize it because the most powerful people in Hollywood are racist and they are not going to give the Japanese more credit than Americans. They will probably want a big name Hollywood actor and actress to be the two leads in the film, so you can forget about getting a Japanese guy to play Rick. Now, that's only if the film is going for the Hollywood treatment. Big bucks, big effects, crappy story. That's just the way it is. If the movie is a Japanese film, you are going to wind up with a smart plot. But a strong story won't make a film make millions. The effects in Japan are decent, but not for the spoiled rotten action movie fans who must have perfection. Most of these people aren't interested in a plot. They just want explosions, fight scenes, and breasts. If you try to make them think, the movie will either bomb or not make as much money as the studio hoped for. Japan will never meet these expectations because their effects are substandard to Hollywood's. And in Robotech, you can't settle for substandard. Plus, like I said before, the U.S. is a racist society. No studio will take a Japanese film seriously. Not to the point where they consider it better than an American film. That's never gonna happen, even if the film is superior to anything in the States. So you got accuracy, good plot, substandard effects versus inaccuracy, bad plot, really good effects. Take your pick. But, remember what I said. It's a conundrum. You're damned if you do and you're damned if you don't. But if you must insist on making Robotech a movie instead of a well thought out, well planned series, then by all means. Go ahead. Make your decision...and live with it.