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Ok if I was to do a americanized Yamato movie it would be like this. It would definently be journey to Iscandar. It would be a trilogy with the first movie ending with the battle of pluto and the asteroid defense . I will only be covering the first movie here.

I would start the movie a view of the earth. Its blue and pristine and peaceful. all of a sudden we hear a voice over that says " In the year 2074 we found out we were not alone." Then we see images of Planet bomb's hitting the earth turning it a desolate brown. There is a brief introduction telling of the plight of humanity. And that takes straight to the battle for the Moon

Characters would be combination of american and japanese names.

1. Derrek Wildstar would become Cody Wildstar. The reason for this is because the japanese character's name is Kodai. Its a nice shout out to the source material.
The character would be virtually the same. He lose's his brother at the battle for the Moon and blames the captain for his death. He's a hothead who learns to temper this to become a great leader.

2.Mark Venture becomes Mark Shima. Born of Japanese heritage Mark is Cody's best friend. He is the Helmsman aboard the Yamato and somewhat of a overachiever.He doubts his abilites to be helmsman. He also collects items of military history. His great, great grandfather was the first helmsman aboard the Yamato. Thus there is a proud family tradition within the Shima clan

3. Captain Avatar becomes, Captain Sean Occara. the reason for the name change is because in japanese his name is Captain Okita. He's a very introspective captain with a brillan tactical mind. For years he was the commander of the Avatar, flagship of the Starforce. When the rest of the Starforce is wiped out it was his brillance which kept his ship safe.
Occara's son was lost in battle a number of years ago, so he took a Alex wildstar under his wing as a surrogate. Occara has been described as almost priestly. He has a great respect for life. Orion tells Cody that" Occara was chosen for the mission specificaly for this reason. He wont order people to die needlesly. And he will always try to return home."

4. Nova becomes Dr Marilyn Saffer or Mari for short. She also has the Nickname Nova which was given to her by her schoolmates, but only people she likes can call her that. Of all the character's I took the most liberty's with Nova. I feel that in this day and age she just didnt fit. So I made her the chief Scientist aboard the Yamato. She's also something of a child prodigy. She's a civillian which will sometimes put her at odds with the chain of command. She is the number one expert in Wave motion tech and xenobiology. She's basicaly the person who spews all the annoying techno babble. She feels drawn to Cody but ignores it initially. trying to keep herself focused on the mission knowing that the chances they are comming back are slim to none.

5. Dr Sane becomes Dr Albert Zane. Last in his class at medical school, Albert was originaly a veterinarian. When the need for real doctor's arose he gave up tending animals and joined starforce. He has a horrible drinking problem and even a worse bedside manner.

6. Terry Orion. Terry is one of Occara's oldest comrades having served with him aboard the Avatar. He is the chief engineer of the Yamato. And he will do his duty no matter what the cost. He is constantly missing his two grandchildren who he left on earth.

5. All the rest of the characters are probaly the same. The movie would focus primarily on Cody, Mark, Occara, and Nova. The Ship would be the Yamato and would follow the first 10 episode's pretty closely. There would be some changes to make it more realistic.
The movie would start with the Battle of the moon, which would have Alex's death along with the arrival of Queen Sansha from Iscandar. Mark and Cody would retrive the message and fly back to earth. The rest of the Starforce would be eliminated in a battle. Marks fighter would be shot down over the final resting place of the Yamato. We would see the rusting hulk of a ship while mark give's exposition on its history. Mark and Cody are taken to a hospital in a underground city where Occara is being fixed. Occara tells Cody that his brother died bravely. Cody becomes angry at Occara and there is a altercation, Occara walks away.
Next scene we see a briefing room where Nova and the top brass of Starforce watch a holographic recording of Queen Starsha's offer to give the people of earth Cosmo DNA if they can reach her planet which lie's in the Large Magellanic cloud which is 160,000 light years away. Starsha gives as a gift the wave motion engine. A device capable of granting faster then light travel.

After that we have the scene where Occara orders Cody and Shima to the Yamato and the ship takes off for the first time. We the old hulk shaking off its rust and becoming a sleek looking battleship with a giant hole in the front on the prow. It destroys a mothership which was sent to spy on the ship.

Then theres the briefing scene when the crew of the Yamato are told that the earth only has 365 days left. Nova tells everyone about Starsha's message and what it can mean. Ocaara tells the members of Starforce that they dont have to volunteer. yet to a person everyone stays. The soldiers march to the waiting yamato while their loved ones say goodbye. this is identical to the Tv series.


Yamato lifts off and destroys the planet bomb. It is attacked by a fleet ships guarding the moon. Nova makes calculations in order to warp space while Cody and the Black tigers fight a fierce battle outside. Mark must manualy make the jump with his instruments. After a tense few seconds they then warp to jupiter. leaving behind the enemy fleet.
Mark has a wonderful scene where he confess's how he doesnt think he is cut out to be the pilot of the Yamato. Cody reassures him, telling him he's doing a great job.
the Yamato find's a country sized Alien relic lies just inside jupiters clouds. They are attacked by a Garrison of ships. Yamato use's Wave motion gun and complteley destroys Alien artifact. Yamato is damaged and lands on Io where the Starforce goes out to find a special metal. there Cody finds the remains of his brother's Ship, and his brothers gun. He is ambushed by Gamilon troops who were hiding in the area and He saves nova's life yet is grazed in the arm. Dr Zane patches him up. Cody tells Occara about the ship but Occara is silent only speaking 2 words " No survivors?"

Yamato takes off and heads for Pluto. The gamilons launch their planet bombs from their and have a large base. The commander of pluto use's a satelite weapon to damage yamato. Yamato trys to fire Wave motion gun, but it was damaged in attack. Yamato is attacked by Satelite weapon again and begin's losing altitude. It crashes into the plutonian ocean which the Gamilons had created. The Gamilons think it is sinking but that is really a ruse. when enemy subs attack the yamato unleash's it firepower. Cody leads a daring attack on the Satelite weapon, while Mark keep's the Yamato surfacing and Sinking as a decoy. a great deal of crewmembers are killed when the satelite weapon hit's the side of the ship. Yet in the nick of time Cody destroys the weapon. The yamato flys into the air and attacks the base, setting off all the planet bombs in the process. The pluto base is destroyed.
Yamato flys off with the remanants of the Pluto base fleet in pursuit. Yamato is heavily damaged and finds the debris of the tenth planet of our solar system, Its now an asteroid belt. Nova comes up with a revolutionary idea of using Anti gravity technology to create a defense screen. Cody helps with the reapairs as he sees a fleet of ships comming towards them. The Yamato ducks into the asteroid field using the Asteroid defense to cover them with rock. they hide in the field. Gamilons discover them and attack. Yamato uses asteroids as a ring destroying ships with them, there is a massive battle. In the end the leader of the Pluto outpost orders his fleet to ram the Yamato. In the end the Starforce is victorious. The Solar system is liberated at last. everybody cheers on the bridge, Nova hugs cody then quicky backs off.
However there is a transmission that states people are dying quicker then ever on earth and the Yamato must hurry. The final thing we see is this

Ext Earth-

We see hanging in space the brown planet earth. camera begins to mover towards the sickly planet. it dips down into a canyon then show's us a underground city the size of New York. It has something growing on the walls, something is causing it to mutate. We see images of people in hospital beds, hundred's of them. Yet finnaly we see a huge number on the screen that says 330. The camera moves towards making it bigger until we go through the zero. Then we fade to black

V.O. In the underground cities of earth, humanity is fighting a losing battle. The alien radition continues to seep downwards mutating what it comes in contact with. and now 10% of the population is poisoned. Yamato has been gone just over a month, but it maybe too late. Hurry Starforce!! you have only 330 days left before the human race becomes extinct.


Special effects would be CG and model work. I dont know who would act. But this is my idea for a big budget Yamato movie. The feel would be similiar to something like the new Battelstar galactica or Babylon5. It would be gritty and realistic. It would be reverential to the source material in the same way that Lord of the rings was. It would have changes, but they would be minimal.
It would be a space epic unlike anything anyone had ever seen. It would be character based just like something like Serenity. We would know and care about these people. When in the next movie Occara get's sick, the audience will be moved to tears. I would want real emotional depth wrung from every character.
I would also want the Creator's blessing. I would tell him I would change things for a western audience but I would keep the spirit of the show very much alive.

If I could choose a director I think I would have to have someone who can do Special e/fx and can direct actors well. I think I would go after Peter Jackson.

Peter knows epic and he knows emotion. He also knows Richard Taylor and Bernard Hill. which is all very good. hey Liv Tyler for Nova anyone???

Though maybe Wolfgang Peterson. He directed Das boot

Well this is the plan for the first Star Blazers movie. My deepest fantasy is that somebody from the film come's and reads this and say's good idea. Hope you all enjoyed. I know I had a blast writing this.

IMHO, Star Blazers is bigger than a 2-hour picture; it deserves its own series on Sci-Fi or one of the other cable networks. It already has three seasons worth of storylines that few people outside of its fans fully know about. Besides, if Battlestar Galactica can get one, why not Star Blazers? It already have a bigger fanbase than BG does right now and that doesn't include the Japanese fans who would go nuts over it if its done right; it would be an instant hit, especially if they don't go fully 'Hollywood' and ruin it.

As far as which story to start with first, Iscandar is DEFINITELY the first choice of Star Blazers I would cover. The constant race to save all of mankind and the struggles involved has all the potential to pull the heart strings on anyone, regardless of their point of view. I would keep all of the original characters and plots with a few changes, courtesy of the neighborhood CGI graphics. I would also start well before 2199. I would also want them to start with, oh, who am I kidding, time to play scriptwriter.....

The year is 2146. Unbeknownst to the people of Earth, a war of an unprecedented nature is being fought thousands of light-years away from Earth's solar system. For thousands of years, the planet of Iscandar has reaped the benefits of its advanced science and, in particular, its wave technology. It is this technology that has made them the envy of other planets throughout the universe. That all changed over three hundred years ago when a small Gamilon faction of the Comet Empire, disgruntled over the lack of movement from its leaders, were exiled to a small, uninhabited planet next to Iscandar. At first, there was a peaceful accord amongst the two as Iscandar, with its technology, helped the Gamilons settle into their new home. As centuries passed and leadership changed hands however, the Gamilons began to assert their power, much to the dismay of its neighboring planet. The longtime peace accord was bound to be broken. Under Leader Tangill of the Gamilons, the first shots were fired in 2138. The Iscandarians were completed caught off guard and hundreds of thousands were killed before the first counterattack could be launched. The ensuing battles would be costly for both….

‘There isn’t much more we can do to stop them. It’s a matter of simple numbers, they have more’, explained Ramos of the Iscandarian council. ‘They’ve wiped out 90% of our defense forces with their reflex guns and other hideous forms of weaponry.’

‘That’s because we’re a race of scientists and they’re a race of barbarians’, answered Antinet. ‘They’re not out to destroy our planet, they’re just out to get the rest of our technology so they can go on a galactic conquest for power. Do you honestly think they would stop with us if we give up the ghost now? We have to keep the rest of the galaxy in mind when we fight them. There are planets far less advanced than ours who would be easy pickings for the Gamilons if we were to turn tail and surrender.’

‘It’s just reprehensible that a group of exiles our ancestors helped, when no one else would bother, would turn around and seek to take us out’, uttered Tobias.

‘Once a member of the Comet Empire, ALWAYS a member of the Comet Empire. It was only a matter of time before they resorted back to their old ways. War is second nature to them’, explained Thia.

Just as they were to about to continue, a relayed message came in. The Gamilons have completely broken the line and are now advancing toward the capitol city. The council takes a look outside, only to see a battalion of Gamilon fighters headed their way. There are no living Iscandarians in sight. They fully know that Gamilons don’t take hostages or negotiate in the midst of war. They quickly rush to inform Queen Camilla, who is tending to her twin daughters, Starsha and Astra.

‘Queen Camilla, we have bad news. We were just informed….’
‘That our lines were broken a few hours ago, Ramos? I realized that this moment would come and have finally come to grips of what must be done.’
‘Your highness, you don’t surely mean….’

‘Yes, Antinet, the Cosmo DNA device must be used. We have over ¾ of the Gamilon force in our airspace and the rest storming our castle. We don’t have much time. I know this isn’t the most ideal of situations but in order to preserve our way of life, we must act quickly.’

The Cosmo DNA device is a machine that the Iscandarians have developed centuries ago to rid the planet of any radioactive or pollutant material in the air, which explains why Iscandar remained in such beautiful condition. Over time, the device has been weaponized to also resurrect a dead or dying planet, similar to the Genesis devise in Star Trek II. It has always been preserved to be used as a last resort in case of an ensuing takeover by hostile invaders.

‘How will our way of life be preserved if no one is here? The Cosmo DNA device would wipe everyone out within moments’, asked Thia.

‘There is a way’, explained Queen Camilla. ‘There is an underground bunker hundreds of miles beneath the surface to shield us from the anti-matter that the devise emits in its Nexus phase of recreation. It has been a top-secret location that has been known in my family for generations. The problem is that it is located just beyond the city’s eastern gates on the far side of the castle, which will soon be littered with Gamilons.’

‘Then what are we waiting for?’, cried Antinet. ‘Let’s get everything we can carry and get there before the Gamilons get to us.’

Twenty minutes later, General Kragen and his Gamilon forces reached Queen Camilla’s castle, only to find no one from the hierarchy or council there.

‘Leader Tangill, this is General Kragen. We’ve reached the castle but there is no sign of the Queen or the council. What are my orders, sire?’

‘Continue the search, General. The cowards couldn’t have gotten far. No one else matters to me but Queen Camilla, if you get my drift. I want her brought back to Gamilon alive.’

‘Yes, sire. Sgt. Krypt, take the squadron and continue the search. Shoot everything moving except the Queen herself.’

‘Pardon me, Leader Tangill, but the advisory council awaits your presence on their latest findings on a new star system.’

‘If you will excuse me, General, I have some other important matters to tend to. Good luck and happy hunting.’

‘As you wish, your majesty.’

In his quarters, Tangill is advised about a new star system hundreds of light-years away.

‘It is called the Solar system, Leader Tangill’, said Concentra. ‘There are multiple planets with plentiful resources for us to use for trade and commerce. By conquering this system, we will strengthen our empire and be the envy amongst the Bolars and, dare I say, the Comet Empire.’

‘Are there any known inhabitants in this system?’, inquired Tangill.

‘The only ones are from the planet with the most resources, the third one orbiting around the star right here, sire’, responded Septon. ‘From our findings, this planet is called Earth. They have about two billion inhabitants having recovered from a war it started amongst themselves roughly 120 years ago, which almost destroyed the planet. To say they are ripe for the taking would be an understatement.’

‘They’re total barbarians, your majesty’, said Raptura. ‘They haven’t even discovered light-speed technology and only have a few research outposts on its moon, this red planet next to them, and on a planet called Pluto located here. They are fit for slave labor.’

‘From my gatherings, they aren’t even fit for that’, responded Concentra.

‘That’s what happens when you don’t have the leadership that we do here. The Earthlings go to and fro and…’

‘Enough of the galactic brown-nosing, Raptura’, barked Tangill. ‘There is no doubt that we are in need of conquering another system to compete for galactic supremacy with the Bolars and Comet Empire. Even when we take over Iscandar, we wouldn’t have enough to take either of them on. This is indeed the one we need to take a serious look at. But we have to be practical here. We haven’t even won the war with the Iscandarians, yet. Yes, they and their treacherous queen will soon fall to us but they are putting up a tougher fight than I thought they would. We’ve already lost thousands in this war. So, I want this little mission to be done slowly and secretly. I want you to start by sending our best scouts to this system to see what these Earthlings are all about. I want to know about how they live, their history. Most importantly, I want to know about their defenses. The scouts must tread lightly so as not to alert them so our stealth ships would have to be used so as not to be detected by their radar systems. If they are as barbaric as you say, they would respond in kind if they were to be detected. They may not have our technology but they surely have enough radioactive power in their arsenal, considering the amount of lives lost in that war of theirs. Is that number right, Concentra, five billion lost? The only question I have is, do we even have the technology for our full armada to get there?’

‘Not yet, your highness, but we are very close’, answered Septon. ‘As of right now, it would take roughly three years for even one of our stealth ships to get there without detection from their radar system. But we will soon have all of Iscandar’s advances, even its guarded wave technology to make such trips in a much shorter period of time. We will certainly have it available on every flagship and destroyer by the time your son Desslok takes the throne, sire.’

‘We will soon have the wave technology in our clutches, Septon’, said the Gamilon leader. ‘We may not be here to see it fully realized, but my son will. Yes, Desslok will be the one sitting at the head of all tables. He will have the Iscandarians, the Bolars, the Comet Empire, and rest of the universe kneeling at his feet. Now let’s get back to the task at hand. To the fall of Iscandar.’

‘To the fall of Iscandar!’, shouted the council in unison.

Racing towards the underground bunker, the remaining Iscandarian council, Queen Camilla and her daughters are caught from behind by the Gamilons. Just as Queen Camilla opens the escape hatch, the entire council is shot down in cold blood and Camilla is badly wounded. She and her twin daughters barely escape to the underground bunker and seal it off.

‘We have to activate the device before the Gamilons get down here,’ said Camilla. ‘It’s only a matter of time before they remove the safety hatch.’

Just as the General Kragen orders the troops to remove the hatch, the Cosmo DNA is activated. A burst of electron particles erupts from around the castle gates and other various parts of Iscandar. Within seconds, General Kragen and millions of his forces on Iscandar are no more.

‘Mommy, its quiet’, whispered Astra.
‘Yeah, too quiet’, responded Starsha.
‘Let’s turn the monitor on to take a peek outside’, said Camilla.

The monitor is turned on to reveal the Cosmo DNA’s effect. There are pristine streams, blue skies, animals, and beautiful waterfalls. There is not a trace of Gamilons or Iscandarians anywhere as they have been totally atomized.

‘Mom, there is an urgent message coming from Gamilon. I think its Tangill.’
‘Put it on the overhead monitor, Starsha.’

Starsha’s suspicion was correct as Leader Tangill’s face emerged on the screen. He appears ashen and in total shock to not only discover his invading fleet wiped out but also his main target still alive and protected.

‘Queen Camilla, what have you done to my troops!?’
‘No Tangill, the question you should be asking is what did you do to my people? You started this bloody war in your thirst for power and it has cost the lives of millions. I did what was best for Iscandar and have more than enough power to do it again if you send another Gamilon ship in this direction.’

‘Are you threatening me?’

‘No Tangill, it’s a promise. If any fleet with a Gamilon logo even as much as attempts to invade our airspace again, they will suffer the same fate as Kragen and his troops did a few minutes ago. For your treachery, you and the Gamilons are hereby banished from ever stepping foot on this planet for eternity. Do not call us. Do not ask for our help in any endeavor, especially if it involves your sick quest for galactic rule. In exchange, we will not intervene in any of your affairs unless it is a clear act of aggression against an inferior race of beings. Understood?’

‘I will accept this treaty if, in addition to what you said, also give us the elements needed to achieve wave-motion energy. As long as I’m alive, I will not use my military might to fight other beings for territorial reasons.’

‘Granted.’

‘But my son will’, thought Tangill as he smiled. ‘Oh, my son will and then some.’
Forty years later on Earth, a meeting is taking place in Midway City amongst the Earth Defense Force. It has been established as the capitol of Earth after the Third World War, which wiped out every major city and many civilizations.

‘All in favor of the building of emergency underground cities, please raise your hands’, said Council Leader Williamson. ‘All opposed? The ayes have it 9 votes for to 4 against. Are there any other matters of business? If not, then this meeting is adjourned.’

While the rest of the committee is leaving for the room, Colonel Rydell stews in his seat.

‘Is there something you want to get off your chest, Rydell?’, asked Williamson.
‘Permission to speak freely, sir?’
‘Granted.’
‘You know what I want to say.’

‘Yes, and we’ve gone through this time and time again, Harold. For the last time, the answer is still no.’

‘Why does this council continue to ignore the fact that we are letting advanced technology go to waste on meaningless research outposts?’, inquired Rydell as he strode around the conference room. ‘Pardon my French but what in the hell are they researching, Don? We’ve invested billions of dollars to have our best scientists and military personnel sit in isolation and boredom when we could be in the last stages of colonizing these planets and moons by now.’

‘I’m fully aware of that but the committee doesn’t feel the sense of urgency you do. Or I for that matter. We already have a lot ahead of us trying to get the U.N. to buy into building these underground cities. You know how long we are going to have to fight to get this approved by them? And you know that the U.N. Senate is looking for any means to cut into our budget so we have to tread softly.’

‘But wouldn’t this help our economy and our military by having our forces spread out in case of an attack?’, asked Rydell. ‘If we were to be attacked by an alien force of some kind, we would have all of our eggs in one basket by having everyone assembled on Earth as we do now. Even if something catastrophic were to happen here on our own, like another world war, where would the rest of mankind go?’

‘Whoa there cowboy, what attack?’, asked Williamson as he raised his hand. ‘Look, we’ve been halfway through the solar system and back for almost two hundred years and there has been not one sign of alien contact whatsoever. So what’s changed?’

‘This has,’ answered Rydell, as he takes what looks like a large folded up poster from his briefcase. ‘This is a picture that was taken from a telescopic lens last night.’

‘This appears to be small comets or asteroids flying around. Interesting that this was taken from the very research outposts you opposed’, said Williamson.

‘What’s more interesting is that it wasn’t taken from an outpost but from my son’s telescope I got him for his birthday. And since when did comets and asteroids make 90 degree turns in space like these?’

‘C’mon, Harry. You sound like one of those conspiracy theorists that were around in our great-grandfather’s time’, laughed Williamson as he took in his now lukewarm coffee. ‘They had pictures of stuff like this, videos even. And what changed? Nothing.’

‘I know, but here is the difference’, answered Rydell as he reached for the intercom. ‘Carmen, could you please tell Major Venture to please come into the conference room. Thank you.’

Major Shiloh Venture walks in with an even larger briefcase. Venture is known as one of the brightest military scientists in the world. He designed the propulsion engines that made it possible to send people to the outskirts of the solar system as well as shock cannon weaponry that could be used in space defense.

‘Major Venture, thank you for taking time out of your schedule to meet with us’, said Rydell. ‘Could you please enlighten Commander Williamson with what you recently discovered?’

‘Yes sir. Last night, I received a call from Colonel Rydell informing me of a possible unidentified object flying around the Eastern seaboard. If it was anyone else besides him, I probably would’ve cussed the person out and hung up the phone. Anyway, I took the readings you gave me and fed it into one of our military satellites orbiting the moon only to come across the objects myself. I too assumed they were meteors of some sort but I took a picture of them to be sure. And after magnifying the objects, here is what we found.’

Venture takes a couple of large photos out of his briefcase. One of the photos was similar to what was shown by Rydell earlier. However, the magnified one revealed something disturbing. It appeared to be…..

A series of small green spaceships and the appearance of blue figures in the cockpits. Commander Williamson dropped his coffee mug as the emergency alert systems sounds off.