Shioli Kutsuna & Michael Mando Join Netflix’s ‘Gundam’ Live-Action Movie

Shioli Kutsuna (Deadpool 2) and Michael Mando (Spider-Man: Homecoming) have been cast in Netflix‘s live-action Gundam movie from Legendary, sources tell Deadline.

They join the previously announced Sydney Sweeney (The Housemaid) and Noah Centineo (Black Adam). Jason Clarke was also attached but has since fallen off the project.

Based on Yoshiyuki Tomino‘s revered Japanese anime franchise, the film is being written and directed by Jim Mickle (“Sweet Tooth,” Stake Land).

In the works since 2021, Legendary co-developed the project with franchise owner Bandai Namco Filmworks.

Mickle and Linda Moran will produce under their Nightshade banner along with Centineo and his partner Enzo Marc.

Plot details are under wraps. Gundam is known pioneering the “real robot” mecha genre, depicting giant robots — governed by realistic physics and technological limitations — within a militaristic setting.

Gundam is set in the Universal Century, a future where humanity has colonized space. When a rebellion erupts between Earth and its colonies, the ensuing conflict is fought by pilots in massive mechanized contraptions known as mobile suits.

The long-running multimedia franchise launched with “Mobile Suit Gundam” in 1979. It now spans 83 animated series and movies, in addition to a lucrative merchandising arm that generates $600 million annually.

Kutsuna can next be seen in Nicolas Winding Refn’s Her Private Hell, due out later this year, while Mando will reprise his role as Scorpion in Spider-Man: Brand New Day, releasing July 31.