Madame Web Star Sydney Sweeney Reportedly in Final Talks to Star in Live-Action Gundam Movie

Madame Web prima Sydney Sweeney is reportedly successful last talks to prima successful the live-action Gundam movie.

In February, it was confirmed that the unrecorded enactment movie adaptation of the beloved anime and artifact franchise Mobile Suit Gundam had entered production, with Bandai Namco and Legendary signing an statement to co-finance it.

The companies confirmed Mobile Suit Gundam, which presently lacks an authoritative name, volition beryllium written and directed by Sweet Tooth showrunner Kim Mickle and released successful theaters globally. No merchandise model oregon crippled details were shared, though a teaser poster, below, was released.

Gundam movie teaser poster.

Variety reported connected Sweeney’s Gundam engagement successful the live-action Gundam movie, though crippled and quality details are chartless astatine this time.

Sweeney is known for HBO play bid Euphoria, The White Lotus, Reality, Anyone but You, and the aforementioned superhero flop Madame Web. Last month, Sweeney was attached to look successful and nutrient a movie mentation of a fearfulness communicative posted connected a Reddit thread.

Sydney Sweeney looks acceptable to prima successful the Gundam movie. Photo by Neilson Barnard/Getty Images for Vanity Fair.

"We program to steadily denote details arsenic they go finalized," Legendary and Bandai Namco said astatine the clip the live-action movie was released.

"Mobile Suit Gundam, which began broadcasting successful 1979, established the genre of 'real robot anime' that could not beryllium described successful presumption of elemental bully and evil, which had been the inclination of robot anime up to that point, with realistic depictions of war, elaborate technological examinations, and intricately interwoven quality dramas that treated robots arsenic 'weapons' called 'mobile suits,' and caused a immense boom," they added.

Photo by Neilson Barnard/Getty Images for Vanity Fair.

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