It's the same producer who was developing a live-action STAR BLAZERS movie in the 1990s at Disney, which changed the space battleship from the Yamato to the... Arizona. The screenplay was online for some time (it may still be), and stunk to high-heaven, having very little resemblance to the original, except for the basic premise (and was more like J. Michael Straczynski's CRUSADE than it was STAR BLAZERS).