Sydney Sweeney’s Netflix ‘Gundam’ Movie Is A Sign Of Things To Come
HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA – DECEMBER 15: Sydney Sweeney attends the Los Angeles premiere of Lionsgate’s “The Housemaid” at TCL Chinese Theater on December 15, 2025 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Monica Schipper/Getty Images)
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Sydney Sweeney is at present within the midst of what has change into a vastly controversial run in Euphoria season 3the place this week the sequence had her in a child outfit, seducing males on OnlyFans, which is precisely as bizarre because it sounds. Now, she’s pivoting to her subsequent position the place she’s going to…lead a live-action blockbuster gundam films for Netflix.
She’s been connected to this for a while, however now it is formally her subsequent challenge, with manufacturing beginning now. The movie can have her reverse Netflix favourite Noah Centineo of To All The Boys I’ve Loved Beforethe just lately canceled The Recruit, and the upcoming live-action Street Fighter film.
An 18-meter tall “Gundam” at Tokyo seaside backyard. The full-size mannequin of Japan’s in style robotic animation character was constructed for the thirtieth anniversary of the start of televised broadcasting of the cartoon. (Photo by noboru hashimoto/Corbis by way of Getty Images)
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The full cast list for the gundam film was simply launched by Netflix, and comprises loads of names and faces that appear like nice will get for the challenge, from Michael Mando to Jason Isaacs to Gemma Chau-Tran to Shioli Kutsuna. Sweeney and Centineo actually stick out.
While Sweeney is consistently making headlines for her crimson carpet appears to be like and denims adverts, she has been attempting to vastly diversify her movie slate, now reaching the purpose the place she’s starring in a high-profile blockbuster for the most important streaming service on the planet when she hasn’t been something near an motion star up to now. It’s a part of a double-hit dive into the idea, as she can be connected to an adaptation of the extremely praised fantasy/sci-fi online game Split/Fiction, which, by its nature, may even be an enormous motion movie.
Sweeney seems to be attempting to speedrun each style with various levels of success. Euphoria was the place she broke out, and now she’s ending that run with what seems to be a genuinely insane storyline. She has excessive highs, like the large success of romcom Anyone But You with Glenn Powell, in all probability the male equal of her within the business greater than anybody else. Also, she starred within the erotic thriller The Housemaid, which was her largest field workplace success, and she or he’s set to steer a sequel.
But there are additionally extraordinarily low lows. Her awards-bait Christythe story of a well-known feminine boxer, had one of many worst field workplace openings within the historical past of the business, which isn’t hyperbole. Somehow, she ended up in a background position in one of many worst superhero films ever made, Madame Web. Though now each day she is rumored for some form of MCU position or one other, from Black Cat to now Emma Frost. Again, that may have her going even deeper into the motion style.
The Housemaid
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Sweeney additionally represents a rising development in Hollywood the place there may be an more and more small slate of actors able to single-handedly greenlight initiatives. I do not suppose an costly gundam film would have been made in any respect if Sweeney weren’t connected, as misplaced as she could appear. Again, it isn’t simply her. Glen Powell is at present circulating a Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 online game adaptation the place nobody appears to have any concept which position he may probably play. But Powell would get that film greenlit. Game actors Charlie Cox and Jennifer English, sadly, wouldn’t.
Live-action gundam adaptation can be tough to tug off with any forged, so we’ll see what occurs right here. I’m really extra frightened about Centineo right here than Sweeney as a lead, however perhaps that is all a greater match than it appears.
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