Tweets coming from the latest stage play of Ginga Eiyuu Densetsu reveal that at the play, a message was projected on-screen announcing that a new anime adaptation for the series was green-lit.

The news was then confirmed by an assistant of Yoshiki Tanaka, writer of the novel series, along with the announcement that the new series will not be a remake, but rather, will be adapting more from the original novels.

The original adaptation for the series was a long-running OVA series which included 110 episodes between January 1988 and March 1997.

Source: Yaraon, ANN, Tweet 1 (reveal), Tweet 2 (confirmation), Post by assistant (adapting more from novel series)