G-Saviour

G-Saviour

The G-Saviour mobile suit.
Genre Military science fiction
Based on Mobile Suit Gundam
by Yoshiyuki Tomino
& Hajime Yatate
Screenplay by Mark Amato
Stephanie Pena-Sy
Story by Stephanie Pena-Sy
Directed by Graeme Campbell
Starring Brennan Elliott
Enuka Okuma
Catharina Conti
David Lovgren
Theme music composer John Debney
Louis Febre
Country of origin Canada
Original language(s) English
Production
Producer(s) Chris Dobbs
Cinematography Joel Ransom
Editor(s) Rick Martin
Running time 93 minutes
Production company(s) Polestar Entertainment
Distributor Bandai Visual
Budget $10 million
Release
Original network TV Asahi
Original release
  • December 29, 2000 (2000-12-29)

G-Saviour (Ｇセイバー Jī-Seibā) is a Canadian live-action television film created as part of the Gundam franchise. Set as an alternate future of the Universal Century timeline, G-Saviour was produced as a joint effort between the animation studio and creator of Gundam, Sunrise, and an independent film production company, Polestar Entertainment. The film was broadcast in Japan on December 29, 2000 from 16:00 to 17:25 on TV Asahi and its affiliate ANN stations.

Plot

The year is Universal Century 0223. The Earth Federation has collapsed, and autonomy has been restored to the various territories under the Earth Federation's control. The Space Colonies have 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 largely made up of former Earth Federation members and encompasses Sides 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, and their Earth-bound parent nations, and the Settlement Freedom League, composed of Sides 1, 4, and the Lunar Cities.

Mark Curran is an ex-CONSENT pilot who now works for the underwater harvesting corporation Hydro-Gen, stationed at the Deep Face Trench sea lab. While out on a harvesting run, Mark saves CONSENT lieutenant Tim Holloway. Shortly after the lieutenant is saved, the lab is commandeered by a Congressional task force, led by Mark's former superior, Jack Halle. As the lab's security system is triggered, Mark goes off to investigate. Mark saves one of the intruders, Cynthia Graves, from Jack's firing squad after she surrenders, while another is killed.

CONSENT is in the midst of food shortage, with its leaders threatening military force to take over the neutral Side 8 colony of Gaea. General Garneuax asks Mark to interrogate Cynthia, who is revealed to be a Gaean rebel. Mark helps Cynthia escape, who shows him an enzyme that will solve the food crisis. The two meet up with Cynthia's interns, Dieter and Kobi, and the four escape into space along with Mark's fiancee Mimi. The group arrives at the Side 4 settlement of New Manhattan, meeting with Philippe San Simeone, an old acquaintance of Mark. Philippe entrusts Mark with a new prototype mobile weapon, the Gundam G-SAVIOUR, but he refuses at first; Mark comes around to piloting the suit to help clear a debris field on the way to Gaea.

Arriving at Gaea, Mark and Cynthia meet Chief Councilor Graves, Cynthia's father. Graves tell them that a Congressional space fleet is on its way to Gaea, looking to apprehend the two. After seeing Mark and Cynthia share a kiss, Mimi hacks into Gaea's defense system, causing multiple destroyer missiles to fire at a CONSENT ship. After Mark concludes that a mobile suit carrier is on its way to attack the colony, Cynthia asks Mark to lead Gaea's mobile suit force against the attack. Both sides launch their mobile suit forces, with CONSENT greatly outmatching Gaea's forces. Jack sorties out in his CAMS-13 MS-Rai, with Mark engaging him in battle with the G-SAVIOUR. Congressional forces enter the colony, with Kobi being critically wounded while trying to protect the enzyme sample. After retrieving the sample, Garneuax reveals his true intentions to destroy the sample and implement a policy of selective starvation. With Gaea's forces dwindling, Philippe and the Illuminati's forces arrive and push back the Congressional attack.

As Mark and the G-SAVIOUR enter Gaea, Garneuax and Mimi escape from the settlement in a Gaean space shuttle. Mimi reveals that she switched out the enzyme and that is back in the possession of Cynthia, as the shuttle is shot down by CONSENT forces. With Garneuax dead and Jack incapacitated, the Congressional forces withdraw from Gaea. Councilor Graves gives a speech stating that Side 8 will stay independent, while Mark returns to Earth with Cynthia.

Cast

Production

Mobile suit pilot Mark Curran (Brennan Elliott) in G-Saviour.

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 Turn-A Gundam television series, to be the centerpiece of Sunrise's "Big Bang Project," its 20th anniversary celebration for the popular Gundam metaseries.

Its story time frame of Universal Century 0223 is the last known year of the Universal Century calendar. However, the animated short Ring of Gundam takes place in an unknown time in UC's future, and the show Gundam Reconguista in G takes place in the calendar era after UC, Regild Century.

G-Saviour 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. It was the second attempt at producing a live-action Gundam feature (after the 1997 interactive video game Gundam 0079: The War for Earth[1]).

Video game

On September 14, 2000, a PlayStation 2 video game was released to promote the film'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 CONSENT; it is Reed and Illuminati's task to see it doesn't succeed. The game is noteworthy for having more Mobile Suits than in the movie, which also move more fluidly.[2]

Music

G-Saviour Original Soundtrack
Soundtrack album by Various
Released January 24, 2001
Genre Orchestral
Length 1:14:44
Label JVC Victor
Producer Sotsu Agency
No. TitleLyricsMusic Length
1. "G-Saviour Theme"   Ikihiro 2:37
2. "Main Theme"   John Debney and Louis Febre 3:50
3. "Rescue"   John Debney and Louis Febre 5:35
4. "Invader"   John Debney and Louis Febre 4:56
5. "Bio-Luminescence"   John Debney and Louis Febre 5:23
6. "Flight"   John Debney and Louis Febre 3:11
7. "Escape"   John Debney and Louis Febre 4:29
8. "Illuminati"   John Debney and Louis Febre 3:11
9. "G-Saviour"   John Debney and Louis Febre 1:10
10. "Wounded Heart"   John Debney and Louis Febre 6:17
11. "Romance"   John Debney and Louis Febre 1:27
12. "Misfire"   John Debney and Louis Febre 2:54
13. "MS Battle"   John Debney and Louis Febre 6:36
14. "G-Saviour Advance"   John Debney and Louis Febre 10:57
15. "Declaration of Independence"   John Debney and Louis Febre 2:33
16. "To Earth"     1:57
17. "New History"   John Debney and Louis Febre 3:06
18. "Orb"   Emily 4:25
Total length:
 1:14:44

Reception

G-Saviour was received poorly by fans, scoring 4.2 out of 10 on IMDb.[3]

Other appearances

A G-Saviour Gunpla appears in episode 8 of Gundam Build Fighters, but is quickly destroyed by Nils Nielsen's Hyaku Shiki.

References

  1. ↑ EX.org - Gundam 0079: The War for Earth
  2. ↑ "Review discussing many points of the film".
  3. ↑ "IMDb page for G-Saviour".

External links

Preceded by
Turn A Gundam		 Gundam metaseries (production order)
2000 		Succeeded by
Mobile Suit Gundam SEED
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