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"Nic Mathieu has been appointed as director on Warner Bros&amp;#039; science fiction project Robotech. The movie, inspired by Japanese anime, has been in the works since 2007 with Lawrence Kasdan, Alfred Gough and Miles Millar all contributing to its screenplay. Tobey Maguire is on board as producer and could potentially take up an acting role too, according to The Hollywood Reporter.  Robotech sees mankind develop advanced technology from a crashed alien spacecraft and use it to fend off three extraterrestrial invasions, one of which is a backlash against Earth weaponising the alien tech. Mathieu is yet to make his feature film debut, having worked mainly in video advertising, but is currently developing two other sci-fi projects - The Wind and Story of Your Life.  Robotech is yet to be assigned a release date. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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