Good old Gundam is back on screens via Netflix, thanks to a new computer-animated adaptation built in Unreal Engine 5 entitled Gundam: Requiem for Vengeance, which now has a release date announced with the new trailer released at San Diego Comic-Con 2024.
The new series will be available on Netflix starting October 17, 2024, consisting of six episodes of 30 minutes each and based on an original story, although referring to events well established in Gundam lore, particularly regarding the One Year War.
Produced in collaboration with Safehouse, the mini-series in question is built on Unreal Engine 5 and is written by Gavin Hignight, who also wrote the animated series Tekken: Bloodline and Transformers: Cyberverse, as well as working on the script for Marvel’s Spider-Man for Insomniac Games.
A New Perspective on Gundam
Director Erasmus Brosdau also has experience with video games, having previously worked on Star Citizen, Ryse: Son of Rome and the Crysis series.
The new trailer is made up of some scenes taken directly from various episodes of the series, condensing a bit the main elements of the story.
The particular element of Gundam: Requiem for Vengeance is the fact that it overturns the classic perspective of Yoshiyuki Tomino’s series: the One Year War of UC 0079 in this case is seen mainly from the perspective of the Zeon fighters.
This change of perspective brings out the motivations of the independentists against the Federation, and above all shows the Gundam as a terrible and disturbing enemy that risks threatening everything that the Zeon pilots are fighting for, being a mobile suit decidedly more advanced than their Zakus.
Specifically, the series tells the story of the Red Wolf Squadron, sent to recover a Zeon base captured by Federation forces on the European front of the war.
