Anyone remember Battle of the Planets? Well, there's a live action movie coming.

gufnork

Do you remember Battle of the Planets? It was based on a Japanese anime called Gatchaman and on the 24th August, a live action version comes out in Japan. The trailer is out and... oh my god what have they done to their outfits? They look like some sort of weird Power Ranger. This isn't how they're supposed to look at all. They're supposed to be light and quick as lightening, zipping around and whooshing through the air like a blur. Instead we get them encased in lumps of metal that look nothing like the original outfits.

I've waited so long for a Gatchaman movie and this is what they come up with?? Colour me disappointed, and that's only the trailer. God knows how naff the full movie's going to be.

Skerries

I used to run around with a cape and a plastic motor bike helmet when I was a kid pretending to be in G-Force

gufnork

And you probably looked a lot better than they did in this trailer...

CorsendonkX

A couple of stills. Shido Nakamura has the talent to make a good bad guy.

Liam McPoyle

Any one remember the Battle of the Planets chewy bars, 5p each.

Them were the days!

Skerries

Coleman Slawski wrote: »

Any one remember the Battle of the Planets chewy bars, 5p each.

Them were the days!

Yes! no one else remembers them when I've brought them up on the retro forum
Friday the Ice cream van would come around our area and I would always get about four of the purple bars as they were my favourite

Skerries

I'm now only thinking of this as a grown man but Zoltar was a bit effeminate don't you think?

TheIrishGrover

Skerries wrote: »

I'm now only thinking of this as a grown man but Zoltar was a bit effeminate don't you think?

That's because the version we saw was heavily edited from a much more adult anime where, IIRC was a hermaphrodite (I'm sure a quick google would confirm)

Anyway, the trailer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r56XwTGidsU

Ah, the days of trying to catch a peek at Princess' panties

Edit: Sorry, didn't see the OP posted a link to the trailer itself

Howard Juneau

Battle of the Planets is best left in my childhood, I don't want any rejigged crummy action movie to soil it's memory

constitutionus

Skerries wrote: »

I'm now only thinking of this as a grown man but Zoltar was a bit effeminate don't you think?

wasnt there an episode where his mask gets torn off and he turns out to be a blonde chick ?

the fun in this for me will be if they go with the original japanese stuff which was FAR more violent.

none of that 7 zark 7 shyte !

gufnork

TheIrishGrover wrote: »

That's because the version we saw was heavily edited from a much more adult anime where, IIRC was a hermaphrodite (I'm sure a quick google would confirm)

I've heard both hermaphrodite and transexual depending on who you listen to, but at 17:28 in episode 105, Zoltar says something very telling, "Why did you make me a mutant, if this is how it's going to end then I'd rather have stayed human...", so he doesn't even appear to consider himself human at all, but rather some kind of mutant.

Here's the episode in question,

CorsendonkX

Original Japanese Gatchman

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Zoltar was the main villain of the series "Battle of the Planets", an American loose adaptation of the Japanese "Gatchaman". He was based on Berg Katse, a Gatchaman villain. However the two characters have significant differences. Berg was a high-ranking member of terrorist group Galactor, trying to take over the natural resources of Earth. He appeared to be a normal human but was the result of genetic engineering, fusing together two fraternal twins while in the womb of their mother. As a result Berg was born with both male and female components. His body switched genders numerous times in his life. The process was involuntary in his childhood and teenage years. He learned to control it in adulthood and used both his male and female form as part of a series of disguises. He believed himself to be a superior being. He commited suicide when he discovered his creator Sosai X, an alien, had only created him as a convenient tool and others viewed him as a freak of nature.

American version

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In the American adaptation, Zoltar was himself an alien from planet Spectra instead of a human. His planet was invading Earth and did not employ human operatives. His female-half was changed to be a seperate character, his sister Mala Latroz. Latroz being Zoltar spelled backwards.

gufnork

Ah cool. That explains a lot.