Legendary is in final talks with Sydney Sweeney to star in their upcoming Gundam film.
Jim Mickle, the showrunner of Netflix’s Sweet Tooth, is the writer and director of the live-action film. Legendary and Bandai Namco Filmworks are co-developing the upcoming film. Apart from writing and directing, Mickle is also producing alongside Linda Moran under their Nightshade banner.
Yoshiyuki Tomino was the first to adapt the Japanese military science fiction media franchise, Gundam, into a TV series titled Mobile Suit Gundam in 1979. With a wide variety of adaptations across animated feature films, novels, manga, toys, models and video games, the popularity of Gundam grew during the 1980s.
Set in Universal Century, a distant future, the original series revolves around human colonies fighting in space for independence from Earth. Giant robots called Mobile Suits are used as weaponry for combat. When Legendary announced the Gundam film first in 2021, Jordan Vogt-Roberts, director of Kong: Skull Island, was attached to direct. Currently, plot and character details are undisclosed.
Some of Sweeney’s recent appearances are in Michael Mohan’s Immaculate and Ron Howard’s Eden. Some of her upcoming works include Echo Valley, co-starring Julianne Moore; The Housemaid, adapted by Freida McFadden and also starring Amanda Seyfried; Scandalous starring Colman Domingo; and Christy Martin’s upcoming film, a biopic in which she stars as a boxer. On the TV front, she will also be returning for the third season of HBO’s Euphoria, alongside Zendaya and Jacob Elordi.
