Considering that the live action film is directed by the same person who did the first yamato animated feature it should be faithful, unlike that bad disney starblazers that got cancelled.
I just hope they don't go the JJ Abrams route. The trailer did look a bit abrams trek like, so i not sure if thats bad or good.
Really don't need my childhood memories ruined again. Like every other reimagining out there.
Thankfully George Lucas has nothing to do with this, JJ Abrams, Michael Bay etc.
Nishizaki went and did the animated film without Matsumoto who already tried to rebirth the franchise but was not allowed to use the iconic music, or ship so his ova series sucked. Also Mr N. did yamato 2520 which went nowhere despite some nice symphonic music and designs by the guy who worked on blade runner.
The story is almost identical to what they had in the 90's with some minor changes. But back then it was going to be 100% hand animated maybe they considered using a little cgi, don't know. And the character designer was the person who worked on neon genesis evangelion and i liked those designs better than what ended up in the film. Along with the yamato refit seemed a nod to the 1979 star trek enterprise refit, they even built a model of the new ship for the filiming.
But nish went to prison and lost the rights so we had to wait til 2004 before any rumblings of a rebirth film came to be heard.
The Disney Live action was bad on so many levels though the cgi would probably been great considering they were going to sink hundreds of millons of dollars into a trilogy, but only the first screenplay was ever written. The USS Arizona, and huge ripoff of the star wars trilogy except set in our own universe. I only wish disney also lost all rights to the works of Edgar Rice Burroughs. Their John Carter movie is going to suck and be a bad ripoff of Avatar.
