Hideaki Anno’s Thunderbirds Compilation Movie Getting an HD Remaster

Evangelion creator Hideaki Anno loves three issues: existential trauma, tokusatsu, and film titles with the phrase Shin in them. His newest undertaking has… hmm, let’s go together with two out of three, form of. One and a bit.

Anime News Network stories that Anno, presently sandwiched between saying farewell to Evangelion earlier this 12 months with the discharge of Thrice Upon a Time, and with two theatrical tasks on the way in which within the type of Shin Ultraman and Shin Kamen Rider, really has a “new” undertaking within the works too: an HD remaster of the 1985 Thunderbirds Complete, his first skilled work as an editor. Released in Japanese theaters, the movie condensed the basic Nineteen Sixties Gerry Anderson supermarionation sci-fi collection—concerning the Tracy family and their function as International Rescue, an elite staff of pilots and search-and-rescue brokers battling the sinister risk of the Hood, a mysterious, mystical agent of the darkish arts—right into a standalone film undertaking.

The unique materials for the movie, thought misplaced, has just lately been recovered, and Anno is now supervising a restoration and HD remastering for re-broadcast in Japan in 2022 as Shin Thunderbirds Complete. We may as nicely make it a part of Anno’s unofficial Shin saga, between the Evangelion rebuilds, and his work on Godzilla, Ultraman, and Kamen Rider. Anno’s not the one one doing it both—his collaborator on Shin Ultraman and Shin Godzilla, Shinji Higuchi, just lately compiled three brand-new episodes of Thunderbirds crowdfunded for the collection’ fiftieth anniversary in 2015 as Thunderbirds 55/GoGo, celebrating the fifty fifth anniversary of the collection’ debut in Japan, earlier this month.

After all, it’s not exhausting to see why folks like Anno and Higuchi could be drawn to the fantastical collection’ sensible results work and use of puppetry: if something Thunderbirds is simply as a part of the tokusatsu oeuvre, even when it was with puppet actors slightly than males in rubber fits, simply from a Western creator. Shin Thunderbirds Complete will broadcast on Japan’s BS 10 Star Channel in 2022.

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