Netflix's Gundam movie finally has a director: The company has announced that Jordan Vogt-Roberts, known for directing Kong: Skull Island, will be directing a live-action adaptation of the popular mecha military anime series. Vogt-Roberts, who also directed the independent film The Kings of Summer and episodes of FX's acclaimed television series You're The Worst, will direct and produce the Gundam film. (He's also been in talks with Sony to direct a Metal Gear Solid movie.) Comic book titan Brian K. Vaughan remains the writer on the Gundam film as well as executive producer alongside Cale Boyter, who represents the film's co-production studio Legendary, according to Netflix's official press release. While Netflix remains silent on the plot of the adaptation, the pitch implied that it could take place in the era of the original Gundam series that debuted in 1979: the blog post described the setting for this broadcast, the universal century, of the humanity expanding into orbital space. colonies and finally launch a war of independence to free themselves from Earth governments. Of course, seasoned Gundam fans know that many series and movies have followed the original Gundam anime, expanding on characters and conflicts from the Universal Century timeline, so it's not entirely clear which stories they will directly inspire or adapt. to the live action movie. . Gundam: Legacy Fans have been concerned about Netflix's Project Gundam due to previous efforts by Western studios to turn the beloved animated series into live-action movies. The infamous Ghost In The Shell cast Scarlett Johansson as the original's lead, the cybernetically enhanced Japanese major Motoko Kusanagi, a casting choice that sparked outrage that was baffled in the film. Similarly, fans are divided on Netflix's upcoming live-action Cowboy Bebop, which wrapped filming in March. While we still don't have a release date for this series, it's been over three years since this project was announced for its first season to complete filming, so hopefully we won't have to wait while the Gundam movie wraps up. from Netflix. . . Until then, at least Gundam fans have the newly opened Gundam Factory Yokohama featuring a life-size version of the iconic RX-79 Gundam made famous in the original 1979 Gundam series: