Live Action Evangelion Film to be Made!! (Damn it!!)

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2003-05-20 06:23pm

Just saw this over at Anime News Network:
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/article.php?id=3606

Evangelion Live Action

posted on 2003-05-20 17:21:53
source: Variety

Gainax, Weta, and ADV teaming up for film
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Variety.com (original article only available to subscribers--free trial available), reporting from the Cannes Film Festival, reports that Gainax, Weta, and ADV are teaming up to produce a live action film based on Neon Genesis Evangelion.

Gainax and ADV Films should be instantly recognizable to any anime fan as the studio that created Evangelion and ADV as the studio that owns the worldwide rights to the TV series and localized it for North American audiences. Weta Workshop, however, may not be a familiar name. Weta is the New Zealand studio set up by Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson to handle the special effects for the LOTR trilogy.

Adding complete credibility to this story is the quote from ADV Films president and co-founder John Ledford: "The three main players here represent something of a dream team for a project like this. Between the quality and significance of Gainax, Weta's industry-leading skill in visual effects and our expertise in the marketing and promotion of anime and anime-related content, this project is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity."

To top it off, while the film is still in early development, Ledford mentions an "aggressive timetable."

Neon Genesis Evangelion joins a growing list of titles, including Kite, Dragonball Z, Battle Angel, and Lupin III, that are rumored or confirmed to have live-action remakes in the works.

ANN has confirmed this story with ADV Films.

While I'm very happy that GAiNAX will be in charge and Weta will be doing the effects, I still have severe reservations about a film such as this being made (although I'd be murderously furious if GAiNAX wasn't involved and it was just some bullshit American studio making all of the choices).

What I really hope for is that the end product doesn't come out all "Yankee'fied", and that nothing is sacrificed just to make it more marketable and "audience friendly" (such as making the Children each be something like 18 instead of 14...).

But be very afraid. We'll have an all new breed of Stupid Evangelion Fan, with an all new strain of Fucking Stupid hard-wired into their brains...

I for one will be on the front lines.

And I'm still slightly pissed off about this...

Post by **Ghost Rider** » 2003-05-20 06:26pm

Well aside from Gainax...this bodes ill will.

AND KITE LIVE ACTION

Still...like the saying goes...we'll see.

Montcalm · Post by **Montcalm** » 2003-05-20 06:39pm

My prediction everything in the special effects,nothing in the story.

Joe · Post by **Joe** » 2003-05-20 06:44pm

A live action Cowboy Bebop can't be far off, with the Wachowski Brothers directing, hopefully.

Hamel · Post by **Hamel** » 2003-05-20 07:21pm

Didn't Gainax already produce a live action episode that was available exlusively on the Japanese DVDs? If so, how was it?

Rubberanvil · Post by **Rubberanvil** » 2003-05-20 07:32pm

Ghost Rider wrote:
AND KITE LIVE ACTION

Without the sexual content, Kite wasn't that good at all. Mezzo Forte on the otherhand, sex is optional.

Andrew J. · Post by **Andrew J.** » 2003-05-20 07:41pm

G-Saviour wasn't too bad, I can't see why this one can't be pulled off...

neoolong · Post by **neoolong** » 2003-05-20 07:49pm

Hmm. I wonder if it'll be a retelling of the series or something.

The Penultimate Ninja · Post by **The Penultimate Ninja** » 2003-05-20 07:52pm

I wonder how they'll do the giant naked Rei...

Silver · Post by **Silver** » 2003-05-20 07:59pm

Oh holy crap please not a live action DBZ!

neoolong · Post by **neoolong** » 2003-05-20 08:15pm

Silver wrote:Oh holy crap please not a live action DBZ!

What, don't you remember how good the first one was?

Joe · Post by **Joe** » 2003-05-20 08:45pm

Live action DBZ? The horror. DBZ is bad enough as it is.

Hamel · Post by **Hamel** » 2003-05-20 08:46pm

Silver wrote:Oh holy crap please not a live action DBZ!

It's in the works, buddy

Sorry

Shinova · Post by **Shinova** » 2003-05-20 08:47pm

I'm not sure I understand how they could possibly translate DBZ to life-action without having it look really really weird.

generator_g1 · Post by **generator_g1** » 2003-05-20 08:51pm

neoolong wrote:
Silver wrote:Oh holy crap please not a live action DBZ!
What, don't you remember how good the first one was?

The one with Yuen Biao in it?

neoolong · Post by **neoolong** » 2003-05-20 08:56pm

He was in it?

MKSheppard · Post by **MKSheppard** » 2003-05-20 08:56pm

Wait, where's your assertations that Evangelion is "done"? Finished? That
there's nothign more to be done with Evangelion? Guess you don't know
everything about Evangelion, after all, Spanky

generator_g1 · Post by **generator_g1** » 2003-05-20 09:00pm

neoolong wrote:He was in it?

Yup. You can still rent it at some Chinese video stores in Chinatown here.

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2003-05-20 09:47pm

MKSheppard wrote:Wait, where's your assertations that Evangelion is "done"? Finished? That there's nothign more to be done with Evangelion? Guess you don't know everything about Evangelion, after all, Spanky

I know a hell of a lot more than you do, for one thing, Shep. Mr. "I've only seen six episodes"...

For one thing, Shep, everyone involved with Eva has said that EoE was the last that was going to be made, with there being no more to tell.

This film will obviously be either a remake or a retelling of the series, you dim-watted bulb...

Ergo: I am still right. Check and mate, Shep.

Stravo · Post by **Stravo** » 2003-05-20 09:55pm

How they an possibly tell a tale as rich and complex as Eva is beyond me. Especially in movie format. If they're going to make a single movie they will need to cut out ALOT to tell it in under two hours and I have no idea who this will work unless what they do is just tell a single story of fighting an angel and see if it generates a buzz worthy of making sequels...but otherwise I just don't see how they will do the series justice.

Update Spanky, I'm now finished watching DVD 7, the episode where Shinji is pulled out of the Eva after merging with it. I am pleasantly surprised how this series is going and very happy with it.

generator_g1 · Post by **generator_g1** » 2003-05-20 11:43pm

On a side note, has anyone of you seen Hideaki Anno's other movies? The only one I saw was Love and Pop, about Japanese high school girls being enjoukosai's.

DPDarkPrimus · Post by **DPDarkPrimus** » 2003-05-21 12:01am

I feel faint...

Yogi · Post by **Yogi** » 2003-05-21 02:15am

Compressing Evangelion into two and a half hours would NOT be pretty.

Shinova · Post by **Shinova** » 2003-05-21 02:42am

Yogi wrote:Compressing Evangelion into two and a half hours would NOT be pretty.

On the other hand, if they succeed, then it would be a milestone achievement.

IF they suceed.

Companion Cube · Post by **Companion Cube** » 2003-05-21 02:45am

Shinova wrote:
Yogi wrote:Compressing Evangelion into two and a half hours would NOT be pretty.
On the other hand, if they succeed, then it would be a milestone achievement.

IF they suceed.

Frankly, I am not optimistic about this movie's prospects.

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