GKIDS Licenses Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX: Beginning in North America With February 28 Premiere

GKIDS announced that it acquired rights for the theatrical release of the Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX -Beginning- movie in North America. The movie will premiere on February 28.

Kazuya Tsurumaki (FLCL, Evangelion) is directing the movie, with Yoji Enokido as the series supervisor and the screenwriter. Hideaki Anno (Evangelion, Shin Godzilla) will also be working on the screenplay. Shie Kobori is the character designer.

Anno's studio khara and Sunrise are collaborating on the movie, which premieres in Japan on January 17th. In addition to the movie, Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX will also be made into a series (the movie is a re-edited version of it). GKIDS negotiated the North American license with Bandai Namco Filmworks, the production company behind studio Sunrise.

Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX synopsis is as follows:
Amate Yuzuriha is a high-school student living peacefully in a space colony floating in outer space. When she meets a war refugee named Nyaan, Amate is drawn into the illegal mobile suit dueling sport known as Clan Battle.
Under the entry name "Machu," she throws herself into fierce battle day after day, piloting the GQuuuuuuX. Then an unidentified Gundam mobile suit pursued by both the space force and the police appears before her, along with its pilot, a boy named Shuji. Now their world is about to enter a new era.

This is the latest installment in the iconic franchise created by Yoshiyuki Tomino.

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