User blog comment:Tuckerscreator/Uncovering Metroid: Part 6/@comment-923138-20100710160947

Since I'm not following the canon of the manga, Pyonchi will not be in this film. While she was an interesting concept, I'm trying to keep myself away from aligning this film too closely to the manga and as a result, Pyonchi does not appear. The canon foundation that I'm relying on here is what I've always used: the games and the Samus Smash Bros. Melee trophy. K-2L, yes. Pyonchi, no.

Old Bird is in the film, per se. That is, the character you're all familiar with is there, but to diassociate myself from the manga, he does not go by the name Old Bird. Rather, he has no name, saying his true one is too hard to translate, as the Chozo language is composed of light signals rather than sound like is. So he uses various alias, but Samus generally calls him "Grandpa." He's been like this before I even read the manga, there wasn't really much from there I wanted to draw on.

The paragraph you mentioned is a new character, Samus's step-sister Medii. If you've played The Legend of Zelda:Wind Waker, think the Rito girl from there. She's been there since my earliests drafts, since I felt the film needed a greater emotional balance in contrast to Samus. I tried to hot-link an image of her but the url didn't seem to be working. See here

Samus does clearly have emotional issues within herself, but I'm trying to foregoe that so that she'll be fun most of the time and keep them largely to herself. Think Tony Stark from Iron Man!

As for Kraid, he is a Bryyonian. Or at least, WAS a Bryyonian, until... But I'll get to that later! Rest assured, it is MUCH MORE complicated than the MetroidGuide description.

I want to keep it PG-13. R, that will just limit who could see it, and I see no good reason to make it an R. Besides, with films like these the big studios try to make them PG-13 anyway just for the sake of profitability, so why set myself up?

But none of this is from MetroidGuide, I've written it all myself. Hee hee...