Gundam Live-Action Film Is Happening: Who Should Play Amuro Ray and Char Aznable?
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According to a report shared via Facebook, the iconic mecha anime Gundam is the latest beloved franchise to receive the live-action film treatment — and the internet has opinions.
The Casting Conversation Starts Now
Few anime properties carry as much weight as Mobile Suit Gundam. Since its 1979 debut, the franchise has defined the mecha genre and built a global fanbase spanning generations. A live-action adaptation isn't just a movie announcement — it's a casting puzzle with enormous stakes. Who steps into the cockpit of the RX-78-2? Who plays the calculating, masked rival Char Aznable? What about the stoic Sayla Mass or the imposing Dozle Zabi? Every single role is a conversation waiting to happen, and the myCast community is already getting started.
For fans who grew up watching Federation pilots battle Zeon forces across space colonies, this film represents both a dream and a potential minefield. The casting has to honor decades of source material while finding performers who can carry a major studio tentpole. That's a rare combination — and exactly the kind of challenge the fancasting community lives for.
What myCast Fans Are Already Saying
The myCast community hasn't been sleeping on this one. Across three separate fan-cast stories for the property, fans have already started staking out their picks — and some of the choices are genuinely fascinating to dig into.
Over at the main Gundam story, which covers 25 roles, Tom Holland has emerged as the early frontrunner for Amuro Ray with 5 votes — the most of any single performance pick across all three stories. It's an instinctive choice: Holland has the boyish intensity and physical agility to sell a reluctant teenage mecha pilot thrust into a war he didn't choose. Fans in that same story have tapped Dave Bautista for the hulking Zeon commander Dozle Zabi, which honestly? Hard to argue with. They've also floated a full creative team, with J.J. Abrams as director, Steven Spielberg as producer, and Zak Penn handling screenplay duties — a blockbuster assembly that signals fans want this treated as a genuine event film.
The second Gundam fan-cast story takes a different approach entirely, imagining what appears to be a more reimagined or modernized take on the universe. Here, Mackenyu — who proved his anime-to-live-action chops in One Piece — lands a role, alongside Rosa Salazar and Dove Cameron. Most intriguingly, Chris Hemsworth is cast as Char Aznable, the Red Comet himself. That's a genuinely compelling vision: Hemsworth has the charisma and physicality to make Char's blend of aristocratic menace and masked mystery work on a massive screen. Meanwhile, a third story — GUNDAM — features 32 roles waiting to be filled, with Lee Chae-min picking up a vote for a Federation Squad role, hinting at fans who want to see Korean talent represented in this cast.
The Roles That Will Make or Break This Film
Here's the honest take: Amuro Ray and Char Aznable are one of anime's greatest rivalries, and the live-action film will be judged almost entirely on whether those two leads crackle with the right combination of idealism and cold ambition. Tom Holland's Amuro and Chris Hemsworth's Char is actually a pairing worth taking seriously — the contrast in age, physicality, and screen presence maps surprisingly well onto the source material's dynamic.
The bigger question is tone and scope. Gundam isn't just giant robots fighting — it's a war story with political complexity, tragic losses, and moral ambiguity baked in. The fan picks for Spielberg and Abrams suggest the community wants something with real cinematic pedigree behind it, not a quick cash-in. That instinct is right.
Cast Your Vote on myCast
The Gundam fan-cast is wide open — head over to GUNDAM or Gundam to add your picks for Amuro, Char, and the rest of the White Base crew, and let's build the dream cast this franchise deserves.
