Netflix and Legendary have started production on the first live-action Gundam movie, putting Sydney Sweeney and Noah Centineo at the center of a project that has been in motion since January, when a move to acquire it was first reported. The film is shooting in Queensland, Australia, and has now added six more names to its cast: Jackson White, Nonso Anozie, Javon 'Wanna' Walton, Oleksandr Rudynskyi, Ida Brooke and Jason Isaacs.
Shioli Kutsuna, Michael Mando and Gemma Chua-Tran are also part of the ensemble, though character details remain under wraps. Jim Mickle is directing from his own script and producing with Linda Moran through Nightshade, alongside Cale Boyter, Ali Mendes, Sweeney, Centineo and Enzo Marc. Matthew Jenkins, Makoto Asanuma and Naohiro Ogata are executive producers.
The story follows rival mech pilots on opposing sides of a decades-long war between Earth and its former space colonies, with shifting allegiances and a growing threat pushing them toward a collision course. That setup gives the film a classic Gundam frame with a live-action scale it has never had before. Gundam, the long-running multimedia franchise from Bandai Namco Filmworks, helped pioneer the sci-fi subgenre known as mecha, and plot details for this version had been kept tightly under wraps until production began.
The cast additions also point to how much of the film is still being kept from view. Six new actors are now attached, but the studio is not saying who they play, and the main characters remain undisclosed even as cameras roll in Queensland. That secrecy leaves the key question answered for now: the Sydney Sweeney Gundam Movie is no longer just a development headline — it is in production, and the studio is betting the franchise can make the leap to live action at last.