Nic Mathieu Helms Robotech Film

Commercials director Nic Mathieu will direct a big-budget film adaptation of the 1980s anime franchise "Robotech" says Heat Vision.

The story takes place at a time when Earth has developed giant robots from the technology on an alien spacecraft that crashed on a South Pacific isle. Mankind is forced to use the technology to fend off three successive waves of alien invasions.The first invasion concerns a battle with a race of giant warriors who seek to retrieve their flagship's energy source known as "protoculture," and the planet's survival ends up in the hands of two young pilots.

The original "Robotech" was a re-edited and re-dialogued to combine three Japanese anime series to give the producers enough episodes to air as a daily syndicated series.

The idea for a film  has been in around since 2007 with Lawrence Kasdan, Alfred Gough and Miles Millar all contributing to its screenplay. In  all that time, this is the first announcement of a director.

Akiva Goldsman Tobey Maguire Matthew Plouffe, Joby Harold and Tory Tunnell will produce.

Maguire may also act in the feature as well