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Originally Posted by Matrixbeast

It all comes down to money.
If they're afraid a property might fail (And since it'd be an adaptation of a work from another country, they certainly will), they'll do their best to try and make it succeed. They'll change what they think an American audience will like more ("Let's make Goku a high schooler instead of a wild child in the middle of the desert!"), they'll add, remove, or alter characters to make it more homogeneous to other popular films in the same genre, and they won't give it the budget it needs to depict what the anime, manga, or game does on a regular basis.
Suits will be redesigned (Or excluded altogether), the setting will become more American out of desperation, and ultimately, all they do is hope for a major flop to get a tax write off.

But what's specifically Japanese about Gundam? That's what I don't understand. There'd be very little complaints about casting because the characters, both racially and nationally, match more of an American demographic. And the setting, they go all around the world, which other American films have done, and that doesn't alienate audiences. The military outfits are kind of tacky as they were designed in the 70's, but I am sure a modern update won't make them look too bad.

They can still easily cut out characters, dumb down the story, or horribly redesign the suits. But with Bandai breathing down any movie studio's necks, I'm sure the mobile suit designs will be as close as possible while still having that "Hollywood" look.