Overview
- Production is underway at Village Roadshow Studios on the Gold Coast in Queensland, with Legendary producing in partnership with Bandai Namco Filmworks and Netflix involved.
- Sydney Sweeney and Noah Centineo lead the cast, joined by Jason Isaacs, Jackson White, Nonso Anozie, Shioli Kutsuna, Michael Mando, Javon Walton, Oleksandr Rudynskyi, Ida Brooke and Gemma Chua-Tran, while Jason Clarke is not on the announced roster.
- The film brings the long-running mecha anime into live action with a story about rival mobile-suit pilots from opposing sides drawn into a race that could decide humanity’s fate.
- Sweet Tooth’s Jim Mickle is writing and directing, with the Australia shoot enabled by federal, Queensland and City of Gold Coast incentives that attract big-budget projects.
- Screen Queensland expects the production to inject about $110 million into the state and employ more than 350 local cast and crew, and no release date or distribution plan has been announced.