Kosh wrote:Antares wrote:Good call, especially if JMS is familiar with Gundam as used it for inspiration on some aspects (for the life of me I can't imagine what they were from the top of my head). Then the question remains would he be interested in rewriting Gundam to be suited for American TV. My understanding is that he favors slightly more original material.
Good point, and I agree. I just can't think of anyone more well-suited to the project.
Well, I'm not as sure I agree, especially if you don't want to get angry with him.
I enjoy alot of JMS's work, but if you've read anything he did for marvel comics, you'll know pre existing work with a character is meaningless to him. He'll do horrible stuff that doesn't make sense for the origional.
If i could accept htis as a seperate work, I might enjoy it, but I'm afraid he'd end up Pulling a Gwen stacy goblin baby incident with a major character or something. And if he did, I might not be able to get over it.
Kosh wrote:Antares wrote:Here we have a marketing problem, because high-concept often equals high costs, and few channels are willing to put up the bill for something like that without serious predictions of good ratings. Bear in mind that even B5 almost got axed in the end of the fourth season, and it shows. But again admittedly you should have a screenplay that's set in a larger storyarch to give Gundam a chance to work its magic (if any
).
Which is part of why I said I don't see it happening, ever. Galactica had nostalgia value going for it, at least at the outset. Then it surprised everyone with the opening mini-series. Gundam has a checkered story in the states, and brand recognition that is generally associated with silly tweens who jerk off to anything Heero Yuy says.
I think part of the key here might be a careful advertising break. You start with short clips. Guerrila advertising. "Victory by 0080" sighns. Unnamed, unmarked previews with a date. Show human drama, severe action. don't even show giant robots for the 1st month or two of the advertising. Show previews with the buildup to UC 0079, each one like 15-60 seconds, plus a UC date, and a series start date. Begin with a clip showing colonization starting, with the AD Date, followed by: UC 0001. Be subtle. After a while, start putting the U.C. date at the bottom. Don't even put GUNDAM in the name if you can avoid it. Name the series:
UNIVERSAL CENTURY: The One Year War.
or something to that effect.
How about the origional meaning for M.S.?
Movement Soldier: The one Year war?