A few years ago the animation studio Imagi was developing a CG animated feature film version of the 1972 Japanese animated series, Gatchaman. Imagi went under, and the project was unfortunately scrapped, but before it was they managed to create a really cool, action packed demo that shows us what we could have expected from the movie, and it looks like it would have been pretty radical.
The original Gatchaman story revolves around five young superhero ninjas engaged by the International Science Organization to oppose a group of technologically advanced villains, known as Galactor, from trying to take control of the Earth’s natural resources. To do so, the ninjas battle various giant monsters deployed by Galactor to capture rare resources.
It’s pretty sad to think we’ll probably never see this movie happen, but it looks like they were headed in a good direction with it.