Space Cruiser Yamato Trailer
New animated feature film of SPACE CRUISER YAMATO ("Star Blazers" to me) set to sail thru the galaxy come December 12th -featuring fancy-schmancy CGI-work mixed with traditional anime. CLICK THRU for (possbile) story synopsis, and check out the official website @ yamato2009.jp for synopsis and write-ups (all in Japanese, mind) as well as a better resolution trailer posted above (viewable here) ... and seems there'll be a live-action version after all!
"Space Battleship Yamato Live Action: Noboru Ishiguro, director and writer of the original Space Battleship Yamato television anime series, confirmed at his Otakon panel on Saturday, July 17, 2009 that a live action version of Space Battleship Yamato is in development. He also noted that Takuya Kimura, the member of the SMAP entertainment unit known to Japanese fans as "KimuTaku," will star in the remake of the space opera classic." [wiki]
Trailer Source: Fanboy.com
UNCONFIRMED-TITLE: Yamato: Rebirth
PRESS: In the year 2220 of the Western Era … A crisis is approaching Earth—the expansion of a moving black hole. An operation of immigration is undertaken to move over 300-million people from Earth … The latest transportation fleet is attacked, but is defended by Space Battleship Yamato, now commanded by Susumu Kodai (38). Aboard is daughter Miyuki … child of Susumu and Yuki.
ADDITIONAL: Rebirth is set 21 years after the first Yamato story and 17 years after the story of the last film, "Final Yamato". The biggest theme of the new film will be environmental issues and how humans have treated the planet Earth...
... The title battleship's size will be mostly unchanged at 263 meters in length and 62,000 tons in mass. In the previous anime stories, the Yamato's signature wave-motion gun can take out an entire fleet, but firing the gun used to leave the ship drained of power — and vulnerable — until it could recharge. In the new film, the gun can fire six shots in a row
[Disclaimer: All above description via wikipedia and cannot be authenticated]
