Animated GATCHAMAN Storyboards Surface For Defunct CG-Animated Movie
In 2004, before the live-action Gatchman (2013) film, Imagi Studios was developing a CG-animated film. The studio struggled with financial issues and the release date was pushed back several times. Ultimately it was cancelled in 2011. Come see a new animatic.
Storyboards by Tom Nelson
Thanks to a heads up from Film Sketchr
Gatchaman, originated in Japan in the early 1970s as a television series called Science Ninja Team Gatchaman. Aired in the U.S. as Battle of the Planets and G-Force, it soon became one of the top syndicated shows. Set in a future world grappling with environmental and technological issues, the story focuses on five reluctant heroes whose remarkable genetic code makes them Earth's only hope of defeating extra- terrestrial invaders.
Imagi's Gatchaman will be would've been a big, effects-rich movie with some of the most ambitious action sequences ever seen in animation. Robert Mark Kamen (The Fifth Element, The Karate Kid) is the screenwriter and Kevin Munroe (TMNT) directs.
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