Mobile Suit Gundam to the world of Hollywood is bringing us one step closer to reimagining the iconic franchise. But it’s not the first time Gundam tried to take on Hollywood... and it’d be hard-pressed to turn out something as bad as the attempt Sunrise would like to forget. Advertisement Created as part of the “Gundam Big Bang Project”—a 20th-anniversary celebration of the Gundam franchise first released in 1999 that paired this Canadian-made TV movie with, grimly, the excellent anime series Turn A Gundam in Japan —G-Saviour (the word “Gundam” is never uttered in its 90-odd minute runtime) is a strange thing to revisit in the hindsight of Netflix, Legendary, and Sunrise’s partnership. The art of adaptation is a heady balance of understanding what made the source material so compelling in the first place with the understanding of what can be brought to the table by presenting it in a new light and a new medium. In the late ‘90s, the