Long ago, in the heady days of 2018, Legendary announced it was making a live-action adaptation of the beloved mecha anime series Mobile Suit Gundam, and after three years of silence, the studio announced that Netflix and director Jordan Vogt-Roberts had boarded the project. Another three years of silence later (save for one apt image of a Gundam on fire), Legendary revealed that it had gone back to the drawing board, parting ways with both Netflix and Vogt-Roberts to rework a new project from writer-director Jim Mickle. Now, Netflix might be back on board, although not in the way it was previously. Deadline reports that the streamer has been tapped by Legendary to purportedly distribute Mickle’s Gundam movie, the first live-action movie take on the franchise since the 1999 TV movie misfire G-Saviour. There’s every chance that the live-action film, like many entries in the anime franchise, could be set in its own unique timeline of Gundam continuity rather than the “Universal Century” timeline that houses some of the franchise’s main shows, including the 1979 original.