[Kolath]

Sorry but never could get in to the premised of raising a sunk Japanese ww2 battleship and making it a spaceship

1. It’s science fiction

2. “Yamato 2199” explains this

3. It’s a cultural thing

4. In the late 1990’s, Disney bought the movies rights to “Space Battleship Yamato” with a storyline of the USS Arizona (either parts of it or a replica) being resurrected as a rally cry for humanity. However, when Michael Eisner left Disney in 2005, the project was shelved and the movie rights expired. Toho picked it up in 2006.

[M1903A1]

“3. It’s a cultural thing”

Yes. Best way to describe it is, IJN Yamato has (in its own way) become almost as symbolic to the Japanese as USS Arizona has to us.

“4. In the late 1990’s, Disney bought the movies rights to “Space Battleship Yamato” with a storyline of the USS Arizona (either parts of it or a replica) being resurrected as a rally cry for humanity. However, when Michael Eisner left Disney in 2005, the project was shelved and the movie rights expired. Toho picked it up in 2006.”

Personally I’m glad that didn’t happen...the idea of using USS Arizona like that made me cringe. In my book, if Hollywood wants to “use” Arizona outside of Pearl Harbor, then they should make a blockbuster about the Battle of Leyte Gulf and cite Arizona in conjunction with the revenge its fellow battlewagons wrought on the Japanese at Surigao Strait.

[tanknetter]

3. It’s a cultural thing

Very true. Starblazers was edited in a major way for US television. Some of it was overtly sexual content that would probably be ok these days. Some of it was cosmetic, like renaming the Yamato "Argo".

However one of the big cuts was the original beginning, a flashback where the Yamato is sunk by USN pilots, with direct analogies drawn between the USN pilots and the evil Gammalons.

There's been a major resurgence in Yamato interest in recent years. Besides the different "Space Battleship" efforts (anime and live action), there was a live action movie about the Yamato's wartime service, and there's even a massive (1/16 scale I think, maybe 1/8th even) Yamato that's been built and put on display.