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G-Saviour
File:G-Saviour.jpg
Directed by	Graeme Campbell
Written by	Stephanie Pena-Sy
Produced by	Chris Dobbs
Starring	Brennan Elliott Enuka Okuma Catharina Conti David Lovgren
Distributed by	Bandai Visual
Release date	2000
Running time	93 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$8,950,948 ¥1 billion

G-Saviour is a live-action television movie set in the Universal Century timeline of the Gundam metaseries. It also officially marks the last events of the Universal Century.

The project's actors are predominantly from Canada, and the Japanese language version has Japanese dubbed into the movie. It was released in 2000 and intended, along with the ∀ Gundam television series, to be the centerpiece of Sunrise's "Big Bang Project," its 20th anniversary celebration for the popular Gundam metaseries.

Its story timeframe of Universal Century 223 is the last known year of the Universal Century calendar. Only a very few UC products have been made since then, primarily concentrating on the One Year War, or crossovers with popular alternate-universe series like Gundam Wing and Gundam Seed.

Gundam's original story co-creator Yoshiyuki Tomino, who was not involved in this production, voiced his disapproval of G-Saviour at Anime Expo New York 2002, and Bandai Entertainment has stopped producing its 2002 DVD release in North America. The work is listed in the production catalog on the official Gundam website in Japan and the official website for Sunrise (the production studio for Gundam animated and live-action projects). It is still available on DVD in Japan from the original releaser, Bandai Visual.

It is unique among Gundam animated and live-action properties in that the word "Gundam" is not in the title, or actually used at all throughout the movie's run.

Story

The year is Universal Century 223. The Earth Federation has collapsed, and autonomy has been restored to the various territories under the Federation's control. The Space Colonies have proudly shaken off their colonial past and now consider themselves independent "Settlements". In this new power scheme two sides have emerged: the Congress of Settlement Nations (CONSENT), which is comprised largely of former Federation members and encompasses Sides 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, and their Earth-bound parent nations, and the Settlement Freedom League, Comprising Sides 1, 4, and the Lunar Cities. CONSENT suffers from a food shortage crisis, while the Settlement Freedom League has the agricultural capability to feed itself and thus is not affected by CONSENT’s food shortage. When an agricultural breakthrough is made in the unaligned Side 8 colony Gaia CONSENT resolves to seize the technology by force to solve its own food crisis, or to destroy it, unless ex-CONSENT pilot Mark Curran and a ragtag band of MS pilots can stop them.

Cast

• Mark Curran - Brennan Elliott (Japanese voice: Haruhiko Kato)
• Cynthia Graves - Enuka Okuma (Ryoko Shinohara)
• Mimi Devere - Catarina Conti (Yumi Takada)
• Lieutenant Colonel Jack Halle - David Lovgren (Takaya Hashi)
• General Garneaux - Kenneth Welsh (Russell Ishii)
• Dieter - Alfonso Quijada (Takayasu Komiya)
• Kobi - Taayla Markell (Rei Sakuma)
• Chief Councilor Graves - Blu Mankuma (Kenji Utsumi)
• Philippe San Simeone - Hrothgar Mathews (Toshihiko Kojima)
• Simmons - Brendan Beiser (Kenichi Ono)
• Dagget - Marlowe Dawn (Emi Shinohara)
• Lieutenant Tim Holloway - Peter Williams (Naoki Bando)
• Barkeep - Christopher Shyer (Kiyoyuki Yanada)

Reputation among fans

As G-Saviour was not released theatrically and its main target audience was Gundam fans, it is often only known among them. It is widely disliked due to how it is conventionally not very similar to other Gundam stories, as well as how it lacks the same amount of character depth that is seen throughout other stories in the Universal Century timeline. There also seems to have been a downgrade in technology, in which the Mobile Suits appear visibly primitive. Another problem cited by many is the actual lack of time the G-Saviour and other Mobile Suits spend on screen, as well as how the Suits move fairly slowly, but this seems to be a creative aspect that has been done for realistic effect. However, the Mobile Suit designs themselves have often been a point of praise, and the HG model kit has proved popular.

Game

In 2000, a PS2 game was released to promote G-Saviour's upcoming release on Japanese television. The game takes place after the events of the movie and stars Reed Fox, a pilot of the Illuminati's Lightning Squad. Garneaux's confidant, General Bais, is developing "Project Raven", which will greatly enhance the military strength of the CONSENT, it is Reed and Illuminati's job to see it doesn't succeed. The game is noteworthy for having more Mobile Suits than in the movie, which also move more fluidly.

Soundtrack

Track listing

1. "G-Saviour Theme" - Ikihiro - 02:37
2. "Main Theme" - John Debney and Louis Febre - 03:50
3. "Rescue" - John Debney and Louis Febre - 05:35
4. "Invader" - John Debney and Louis Febre - 04:56
5. "Bio-Luminescence" - John Debney and Louis Febre - 05:23
6. "Flight" - John Debney and Louis Febre - 03:11
7. "Escape" - John Debney and Louis Febre - 04:29
8. "Illuminati" - John Debney and Louis Febre - 03:11
9. "G-Saviour" - John Debney and Louis Febre - 01:10
10. "Wounded Heart" - John Debney and Louis Febre - 06:17
11. "Romance" - John Debney and Louis Febre - 01:27
12. "Misfire" - John Debney and Louis Febre - 02:54
13. "MS Battle" - John Debney and Louis Febre - 06:36
14. "G-Saviour Advance" - John Debney and Louis Febre - 10:57
15. "Declaration of Independence" - John Debney and Louis Febre - 02:33
16. "To Earth" - John Debney and Louis Febre - 01:57
17. "New History - John Debney and Louis Febre - 03:06
18. "Orb" - Emily - 04:25

References

1. official chronological order of animation and films.
2. - MAHQ review of film
3. - Review discussing many points of the film
4. - MAHQ review of model kit
5. - A review of the film that also discusses the game

External links

• Official G-Saviour website (Archived)
• Gundam Perfect Web's G-Saviour DVD page Template:Ja icon
• Sunrise's G-Saviour DVD page Template:Ja icon
• Bandai Visual's G-Saviour DVD page Template:Ja icon
• G-Saviour ({{{type}}}) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia
• G-Saviour at IMDb

• Articles lacking sources from December 2007
• Space adventure films
• Super Dash Bunko
• Universal Century
• 2000 films