G-Saviour

G-Saviour
Directed by Graeme Campbell
Produced by Chris Dobbs
Written by Stephanie Pena-Sy
Starring Brennan Elliott
Enuka Okuma
Catharina Conti
David Lovgren
Distributed by Bandai Visual
Release date(s) 2000
Running time 93 minutes
Country  Canada
 Japan
Language English
Budget US$ 10 million
(¥ 1 billion)

G-Saviour is an live-action made for television movie set in Gundam metaseries, set in the Universal Century timeline. It also officially marks the last events of the Universal Century.[1]

Contents

Production

The project's actors are predominantly from Canada, and the Japanese language version has Japanese dubbed into the movie. It was released in 2000 and intended, along with the Turn-A Gundam television series, to be the centerpiece of Sunrise's "Big Bang Project," its 20th anniversary celebration for the popular Gundam metaseries.

Its story time frame of Universal Century 0223 is the last known year of the Universal Century calendar. In the real life time frame, only a very few UC anime have been made since then, primarily concentrating on the One Year War, like MS Igloo series, and the latest Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn or crossovers with popular alternate-universe series like Mobile Suit Gundam Wing and Mobile Suit Gundam SEED.

Gundam's original story co-creator Yoshiyuki Tomino, who was not involved in this production, voiced his disapproval of G-Saviour at Anime Expo New York 2002, and Bandai Entertainment has stopped producing its 2002 DVD release in North America. The work is listed in the production catalog on the official Gundam website in Japan and the official website for Sunrise (the production studio for Gundam animated and live-action projects). It is still available on DVD in Japan from the original distributor, Bandai Visual.

G-Saviour is unique among Gundam animated and live-action properties in that the word "Gundam" is not in the title, or actually used at all throughout the movie's run. It was the second attempt at producing a live-action Gundam feature (after the 1997 interactive video game Gundam 0079: The War for Earth[2]).

Story

The year is Universal Century 0223. The Earth Federation has collapsed, and autonomy has been restored to the various territories under the Federation's control. The Space Colonies have proudly shaken off their colonial past and now consider themselves independent "Settlements". In this new power scheme two sides have emerged: the Congress of Settlement Nations (CONSENT), which is largely made up of former Federation members and encompasses Sides 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, and their Earth-bound parent nations, and the Settlement Freedom League, Comprising Sides 1, 4, and the Lunar Cities. CONSENT suffers from a food shortage crisis, while the Settlement Freedom League has the agricultural capability to feed itself and thus is not affected by CONSENT's food shortage. When an agricultural breakthrough is made in the unaligned Side 8 colony Gaia CONSENT resolves to seize the technology by force to solve its own food crisis, or to destroy it, unless ex-CONSENT pilot Mark Curran and a ragtag band of MS pilots can stop them.

Cast

Game

In 2000, a PS2 game was released to promote the film's upcoming release on Japanese television. The game takes place after the events of the movie and stars Reed Fox, a pilot of the Illuminati's Lightning Squad. Garneaux's confidant, General Bais, is developing "Project Raven", which will greatly enhance the military strength of the CONSENT, it is Reed and Illuminati's job to see it doesn't succeed. The game is noteworthy for having more Mobile Suits than in the movie, which also move more fluidly.[3]

Soundtrack

G-Saviour Original Soundtrack
Soundtrack album by Various
Released January 24, 2001
Genre Orchestral
Length 1:14:44
Label JVC Victor
Producer Sotsu Agency

Track listing

  1. "G-Saviour Theme" - Ikihiro - 02:37
  2. "Main Theme" - John Debney and Louis Febre - 03:50
  3. "Rescue" - John Debney and Louis Febre - 05:35
  4. "Invader" - John Debney and Louis Febre - 04:56
  5. "Bio-Luminescence" - John Debney and Louis Febre - 05:23
  6. "Flight" - John Debney and Louis Febre - 03:11
  7. "Escape" - John Debney and Louis Febre - 04:29
  8. "Illuminati" - John Debney and Louis Febre - 03:11
  9. "G-Saviour" - John Debney and Louis Febre - 01:10
  10. "Wounded Heart" - John Debney and Louis Febre - 06:17
  11. "Romance" - John Debney and Louis Febre - 01:27
  12. "Misfire" - John Debney and Louis Febre - 02:54
  13. "MS Battle" - John Debney and Louis Febre - 06:36
  14. "G-Saviour Advance" - John Debney and Louis Febre - 10:57
  15. "Declaration of Independence" - John Debney and Louis Febre - 02:33
  16. "To Earth" - John Debney and Louis Febre - 01:57
  17. "New History - John Debney and Louis Febre - 03:06
  18. "Orb" - Emily - 04:25

References

  1. ^ official chronological order of animation and films.
  2. ^ EX.org - Gundam 0079: The War for Earth
  3. ^ - Review discussing many points of the film

External links

Canada portal
Film portal
Preceded by
Turn A Gundam		 Gundam metaseries (production order)
2000		 Succeeded by
Mobile Suit Gundam SEED
Preceded by
Mobile Suit Victory Gundam		 Gundam Universal Century timeline
U.C. 0223		 Succeeded by
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TV series
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Char's Counterattack (1988 film) • 0080: War in the Pocket (1989 OVA) • Gundam F91 (1991 film) • 0083: Stardust Memory (1991 OVA) • The 08th MS Team (1996 OVA) • MS IGLOO (2004 OVA)  • Gundam Unicorn (2010 OVA)
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