The Hollywood Reporter reports that Alfred Gough and Miles Millar (creators of "Smallville") will pen the big-screen adaptation of "Robotech," a live-action film based on the Japanese anime classic. Warner Bros. will distribute the eventual film. Gough and Millar will be working off a previous draft by Lawrence Kasdan ("The Empire Strikes Back").

Akiva Goldsman and Chuck Roven are producing with Tobey Maguire and Drew Crevello.

"Robotech" debuted in the '80s and told of 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 an alien invasion, with the fate of the human race ending up in the hands of two young pilots.