Yeah as I said in my opening post I know this but the Japanese then took it and used that as the base for the franchise going forward.

My problem is that I don't believe the modern action movie producing Hollywood studios can do justice to something like Robotech. I mean it is a story based around Japanese characters who fight a multi generational war, deal with coming of age issue, racial prejudice, the horrors of war, and issues of personal loyalty. Yes I know a lot of that stuff was added by US producers, my point is that given that this will be a series and each movie will have to make back a budget that is sure to be over two hundred million dollars and it will have to do well in china which means that it will have to have very little dialog and mostly be made up of explotions, I really don't think it will be able to keep what makes Robotech Robotech intact.

Also it is being brought to us by the studio who's poor planing and script control just ran Spider-Man into the ground and Spider-man is a much easier story to bring to the big screen so I really have no hope for this.

Also as I noted above Hollywood has a spotty track record at best when it comes to bringing anything Japanese to the big screen. I bet they keep the Japanese character names but cast white actors in the roles.

I'm sorry but I really don't see this working out well.