Sydney Sweeney’s politics will orbit her Gundam movie if it’s faithful to anime

Netflix’s live-action Gundam movie has a lot to live up to, but so far it’s hard to tell what exactly it wants to be. According to an announcement from Bandai Namco on Tuesday, the film assembles a surprisingly high-profile cast, including Noah Centineo, Jason Isaacs, Shioli Kutsuna, and perhaps most controversial to anyone breathing in steady doses of internet discourse, Euphoria‘s Sydney Sweeney. Seated in the cockpit is director and writer Jim Mickle, whose previous credits don’t immediately signal experience with large-scale, big-budget anime adaptations — horror like We Are What We Are and pulpy thrillers like Cold in July — but he’ll shoot his shot, as production is underway.