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Live Action ROBOTECH Movie

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You’ve always got to admire proactive measures. Hustle. Moxie... dare I say?

I do dare say that, because New York actor Tana Sarnt did some daring of his own.  When he heard that a live-action ROBOTECH movie was in the pipeline to be made, he didn’t just sit back on the couch with his thumb up his nose - - he decided to take action! He made a ROBOTECH short film, MIDNIGHT SKY (starring himself as a Veritech pilot), with the hope that it could get him some attention that could possibly parlay into his acting in the real ROBOTECH movie.

Thanks to Angry Asian Man, we’ve got the full thing for you, below. It’s something of a nice follow-up to the story we ran a while back about PROJECT: ARBITER, which got attention as being a live action, World War II-era GUNDAM film.  MIDNIGHT SKY is a bit minimalist, but cut the guy some slack - - it’s mighty impressive given the shoe-string budget he probably had to work with.  Enjoy it, not only for what it is, but also as a glimpse of what the Robotech movie could be.  You won’t even have to use THAT much imagination, anyway, because he’s got some slick “money shots” of the Veritech fighter planes in flight.

Bear witness to it…  

 

 



-- Tom Pinchuk is the writer of UNIMAGINABLE for Arcana Comics and HYBRID BASTARDS! for Archaia. Watch out for the HYBRID BASTARDS! hardcover collection this April - - available for pre-order now on Amazon.com.


Sigueon April 8, 2010 at 12:56 a.m.
I loves me some Robocross. Even if I'm a bit of a purist, I'd watch a Robotch movie on day one. After all, who wouldn't enjoy some delicious Valkyrie action on the big screen?
jlanzeron April 8, 2010 at 12:56 a.m.
lots of face time for the guy, but he's not so bad.  better for a movie where the actor is passionate for the role not the person in charge of casting passionate for an actor
Karkarovon April 8, 2010 at 4:19 a.m.
Not bad for a 6 minute story.  The guy obviously does care about the role and while it is a little trippier than what I would expect of a robotech movie you can see common themes with the show.
cfatalison April 8, 2010 at 5:49 a.m.
don't you mean macross?
constanzadellarosaon April 8, 2010 at 7:54 a.m.
Short, but still interesting.
Count_Zeroon April 8, 2010 at 9:10 a.m.
Short, but interesting. I kind of wonder who did the music. It reminds me somewhat of Vangelis.

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