Published Oct 25, 2026, 5:52 PM EDT

Actor teases a story of star-crossed lovers in space with Sydney Sweeney

Sydney Sweeney's live-action Gundam movie is a 'big action-romance space' epic

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The live-action Gundam film has been in the works in some form or another since 2018. A director and cast have been announced, including high-profile names like Sydney Sweeney joining the project. Still, hard details on exactly what Netflix's live-action adaptation of the legendary mech anime series will look like have been almost non-existent.

Now one of the movie's stars is pulling back the curtain ever so slightly.

Appearing on the Happy Sad Confused podcast this summer, Gundam and Street Fighter star Noah Centineo revealed the movie is a "big action romance space movie." Centineo continued by describing Gundam as, "a non-Shakespearean Romeo and Juliet in space." That is a bit of a confusing statement, but what I think Centineo means is that the film is…