Robotech: The Movie

Robotech: The Movie (1986)

Mark held the key to Robotech. Unlocking its powers could save the world!

In 1999 an alien spaceship crashed onto the earth. Hidden on board were the secrets of a unique science known as Robot technology. Databanks found in the ship were transferred to the Earth Robotech Computer Complex. In 2009, an alien search party arrived from hyper-space to reclaim their lost databank. The united Earth Government was forced into an Inter Galactic war. Earth forces were able to win the first battle... but at a great cost. The planet was virtually destroyed. New population centres grew out of the ashes... It is now 2027, a second armada sent by the aliens is nearing earth, they have come to recapture the secrets of their lost technology and then destroy the Earth.

Date of release
1986-07-25
TMDB
7.8 / 10 (24)
Runtime
1h 27m
Genres
Animation, Action
Director
Noboru Ishiguro, Carl Macek
Collection
Robotech Collection

Casting

Interesting facts

Robotech: The Movie, also known as Robotech: The Untold Story, is a 1986 American-Japanese science fiction animated film directed by Noboru Ishiguro and Carl Macek. Part of the Robotech franchise, the film is set between the events of The Macross Saga and The Masters from the original 1985 series. It follows Mark Landry, a young man who becomes involved a conflict between Earth and the invading Robotech Masters when he discovers the Masters have infiltrated Earth's military.

Production

When Cannon Films approached Harmony Gold about releasing a Robotech movie, director/producer/co-writer Carl Macek suggested licensing the film Macross: Do You Remember Love?, but Harmony Gold was unable to do so over "political reasons" that Macek was not fully unaware of.

Eventually, Megazone 23 —a 1985 theatrical anime movie produced by Artmic and Artland— became the basis for the Robotech film. With the Megazone 23 license secured, the project had originally been intended to be more of a straight dub of with dialogue and music changes to reflect the Robotech universe.

Cannon Films felt there were "too many girls and not enough robots and guns", and did not like Megazone's downer ending, either. Thus, Macek rewrote the story to take place in the time-gap between the first and second seasons of the television series, cut segments of Southern Cross footage into it, and commissioned animation studio The Idol Company to animate a new ending (which was later included on the laserdisc of Megazone 23, Part II under th…

Because Megazone 23 (a movie) and Southern Cross (a TV series) were shot on different film stock, 35mm and 16mm respectively, the visual inconsistency was very noticeable on the big screen.

It was originally intended for the B.D. Andrews character—named "B.D. Edwards" in the original cut—to go on to appear in the sequel animated television series, Robotech II: The Sentinels, which was in the planning stages at the time. However, this became impossible when the film was recut and time frame of the story changed, as Edwards's presence in the new version would have conflicted with his role in The Sentinels.

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