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

Madame Web star Sydney Sweeney is reportedly in final talks to star in the live-action Gundam movie.

In February, it was confirmed that the live action film adaptation of the beloved anime and toy franchise Mobile Suit Gundam had entered production, with Bandai Namco and Legendary signing an agreement to co-finance it.

The companies confirmed Mobile Suit Gundam, which currently lacks an official name, will be written and directed by Sweet Tooth showrunner Kim Mickle and released in theaters globally. No release window or plot details were shared, though a teaser poster, below, was released.

Variety reported on Sweeney’s Gundam involvement in the live-action Gundam movie, although plot and character details are unknown at this time.

Sweeney is known for HBO drama series Euphoria, The White Lotus, Reality, Anyone but You, and the aforementioned superhero flop Madame Web. Last month, Sweeney was attached to appear in and produce a movie version of a horror story posted on a Reddit thread.

"We plan to steadily announce details as they become finalized," Legendary and Bandai Namco said at the time the live-action film was released.

"Mobile Suit Gundam, which began broadcasting in 1979, established the genre of 'real robot anime' that could not be described in terms of simple good and evil, which had been the trend of robot anime up to that point, with realistic depictions of war, detailed scientific examinations, and intricately interwoven human dramas that treated robots as 'weapons' called 'mobile suits,' and caused a huge boom," they added.

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