AsinineWhelp February 26th, 2009

It’s about time some news has sur­faced, but I am not get­ting my hopes up. Any­thing with the words, “Green­field” and “mov­ing for­ward” means sev­eral more months of wait­ing and speculation.

I hope this movie is not ruined by any film com­pa­nies involved, though there is this com­mon idea that Amer­i­can fil­mak­ers would ruin this film…When in real­ity, every other coun­try (Even Japan *gasp*) has just as much chance of ruin­ing this film. It all depends on the devo­tion of all the par­ties involved; and all the party’s involved thus far, (ADV and Weta in par­tic­u­lar), seem to be really devoted to expos­ing and per­haps expand the story of Neon Gen­e­sis Evan­ge­lion to a new audi­ence while cater­ing to the long­time fans.

As for a rat­ing. R is NOT required to make a good film. There are many ways to skirt around an R rat­ing and still make it dar­ing, con­tro­ver­sial, and faith­ful to the source. A Pg-13 would be just fine for the first film or two (ASSUMING it’s a tril­ogy or more). Let’s con­sider this: the FIRST HALF of the series was aimed pri­mar­ily at older children(12+), So I don’t see how a PG-13 rat­ing would destroy the integrity of evangelion…Atleast for the “first” film or “two”.

Though an R rat­ing would be expected for a ‘final film’.

Let’s not kid our­selves. While I DON’T believe this will be another ‘speed racer’, I DO believe that they will want to mar­ket it to Adults as well as (dare I say it?) older kids (14+).

I have no doubt it can be done right.

I’m hop­ing that this film turns out great. Like many, I’ve waited years to see this film and I want to see it done right. I DON’T want it to be a point for point adap­ta­tion of the orig­i­nal series. I want it to be Faith­ful, but I would also like for it to stand alone, and per­haps (IF pos­si­ble, I’m not assum­ing) build upon and expand the around some of the more sketchy details.

*whew*
Any­way, here’s to another year of waiting…

Grevlis February 26th, 2009

Wachowskis! Thats it! x.x

Asi­nine Whelp March 3rd, 2009

No to spiel­berg, as a direc­tor! I have noth­ing against him per­son­ally. He makes Awe­some movies! Truth­fully, he is a pio­neer in the industry.

But… He has a ten­dency to dump the char­ac­ter drama and devel­ope­ment in favor of the more imag­ini­tive sequences. Which is great, but it cer­taintly wouldn’t be accept­able for a Live Action film of Evan­ge­lion, whose plot would most likely revolve around and advance through the strug­gles of the characters.

Though I still do hope for many kick-ass action sequences. ‘scuse the french.

I hope they go for a direc­tor who is will­ing to watch the series sev­eral times over, maybe even take notes, come up with some of his own ideas, relay them through anno (not green­field or ADV) to see if it would fit the series and con­sult with the writ­ers about any changes.

Fore­most, I want them to like, or bet­ter yet, love the series.

I DO WANT this to be very much faith­ful to Evan­ge­lion, but I also antic­i­pate some­thing a lit­tle dif­fer­ent as well. Not a live-action-point-to-point adap­ta­tion. Instead I want a faith­ful but stand-alone eva movie(s).

I also can’t wait for cast­ing infor­ma­tion. I hope they would choose *mostly* American-Asian actors (except for Asuka). Not only would that remain faith­ful to the source mate­r­ial, but it would hope­fully give asians a more seri­ous role in the amer­i­can movie industry.

It is sad that asians, to this day, still get type­casted as a mar­tial artist, a nov­elty act, or the sexy woman hang­ing off of the vil­lain. This is the 21st cen­tury. We are (should be) beyond that.

If they do choose to make the film with amer­i­cans of “euro­pean descent”, I will NOT go crazy and say,“O MAI GAWD IM BOICOTTING T3h movie!!!!!!111one”. If they are going to pick white actors, I would hope they would choose actors of other eth­nic­i­ties as well. I’m tired of see­ing just white peo­ple in films (and I’m white…well bi-racial, but I was raised “white”) I say this because I don’t know what would make a white actor any­more capa­ble or qual­i­fied to play an asian char­ac­ter over say, a black or his­panic actor.

Basi­cally, if they choose not to do a film with mostly asians, I would hope that they make some of the main char­ac­ters asian (Shinji, rei, yui, etc.) and the rest a mixed cast. Besides, com­bat with the angels is an inter­na­tional task (with japan tak­ing all of the action of course).

I will boy­cott the film if it’s cast­ing is any­thing like the upcom­ing drag­onball film. That, my friends, is a good exam­ple of drunken casting.

If I see that over­rated flat singer Miley Cyrus or some other dis­ney pop queens or kings (like the jonas brothers…*shudder) are in this film, I would not only boy­cott such a mon­stros­ity, but I would also…well, I don’t know what…use your imag­i­na­tion. Per­haps I would Pop in some linkin park and slit my wrists like a dis­traught teen girl(?)

Grevlis March 10th, 2009

@Grevlis
lol, Jerry B is a pro­ducer. Id want some­one like Peter Jack­son, Christo­pher Nolan, or Spiel­berg. But that would never ever happen.

Mike — I know this. Its late hours, my goes kinna foggy. Yes to the first two. Hell no to Spielberg. =)

Asi­nine Whelp — Com­pletely agree! Hon­estly, with every­thing you just said.

Let’s talk to music — Don’t bloody change it, just fuse it. I would love to see..maybe some major Japan­ese singer..honestly can’t think of one right now.…with Diana Krall, who does a lovely ver­sion of Fly me to the Moon. Also, Sarah Brightman..would be lovely.

Give the music more flare, even though it really doesn’t need it — but it would to attracted more peo­ple who don’t know about this series. DJ’s…like Tiesto, BT or Paul Oakenfold…to give things a twist..

Asi­nine Whelp March 11th, 2009

I too hope they keep the orig­i­nal music or atleast a sim­i­lar heart pound­ing feel, but per­haps a lit­tle more up to date… Sound has changed in the last 10+ years since the show first aired. lol.

I also antic­i­pate a ‘main theme’ and I hope to God/allah/xenu/raptorjesus/orwhatever, that they do an epic, INSTRUMENTAL ren­di­tion of Cruel Angel’s thesis.

I say stay away from singers or vocal songs. This movie should be an epic one! Not a com­mer­cial one.
Not to men­tion, it would bring in yet another race/culture(japanese Vs. Amer­i­can) debate…and a lan­guage (japan­ese vs. eng­lish) debate…

Ahem, any­way, I have new questions!

–What things should be cut from the series to bet­ter fit the Movie(s)?

–What should be expanded upon, that you felt was neglected?

–Do you think episodes 1–6 would be a great start for a film series that would need to encom­pass a story of 26 episodes, plus, a movie?

ail­blentyn March 30th, 2009

if this ever gets made (doubt­ful), i’m pre­pared for it to be dis­ap­point­ing
but what would be good was if it wasn’t a com­plete wast, if there was enough great about it to pull out and savour from time to time. i’d rather have it be a noble dis­as­ter with bril­liant aspects than a pre­dictable block­buster that’s been pressed down into the usual for­mula. and so i’d def­i­nitely like to see the direc­tion job go to some­one risky and excit­ing rather than a reli­able stu­dio man like spielberg.

ail­blentyn April 12th, 2009

but i gather that WETA is no longer involved? is that cor­rect? so a bit of a set­back there…
it doesn’t seem that much of this project is mov­ing along steadily in a for­ward direction.

ail­blentyn April 19th, 2009

don’t get me wrong — i’m not cheer­ing for WETA to pull out; i thought their designs looked very good, and every­thing they’ve said in inter­views sug­gested that they “got” the show in a way that was promis­ing.
but i notice that there’s noth­ing about the project on WETA’s web­site any­more (is there?). the only men­tion i can find is one boy say­ing that he started work­ing on the EVA project, and then he adds: “Pity it bummed out”.
maybe i’m miss­ing something.

Asi­nine Whelp April 20th, 2009

WETA hasn’t gone any­where since the actual start of this project back in 2003 (That’s about 6 years).

If you look on the news sec­tion of this site, there will be a year old video about Richard Tay­lor (the head of WETA WORKSHOP) express­ing his desire to get this film done.

At the present time (accord­ing to the most recent arti­cal), there are sev­eral stu­dios ‘com­pet­ing’ for the final rights of the film. Most likely do to the suc­cess of Trans­form­ers. And because ADV is nego­ti­at­ing the final rights of the film, it gives WETA noth­ing to do but wait until the movie(s) are green­lighted or not.
They aren’t involved in the nego­ti­a­tions at this point because they are just there for the (Hope­fully mind-blowing) spe­cial effects…

As for the abs­cence of Evan­ge­lion con­cept art on the WETA Work­shop site, I wouldn’t think to much about it. They only had a tiny hand­ful of ‘pub­lic’ con­cept work at the time it WAS on there. Plus, the con­cept art was made about 6 years ago, they might’ve updated most or all of the works by this point as the film seems to be mov­ing forward.

Only time will tell though.

NotAS­tu­pid­Gringo April 30th, 2009

“The stu­dios wanted to make sure that a “giant robot” movie would appeal to an Amer­i­can audi­ence. ” this is pure bull­sit all they wanna do is change key stuff and make it a “taco gringo” just as they did with dragon ball, there is noth­ing to adapt, the fans like it the way it is for a rea­son, as long as we dont get sur­prises like some rumors of “Ny-3″ or “aliens” instead of angels, i mean why the fuck every­thing need to hap­pens in NY? NY is the worst fking place in this and para­lel uni­verses and only ppl that live in that shit­hole dis­agree, but as for the movie id like to see it on tokyo-3 and just the fking way it is on the animé, there is no need to “adapt” a damm thing

na May 13th, 2009

please, keep it long about 2 hour and a half. I think that makes me clear of the story because I don’t want to see the movie as short as Harry Pot­ter. I hope that Evan­ge­lion will be the enor­mous film and look for­ward to the movie.

ail­blentyn May 14th, 2009

as far as rat­ings, i would think a cer­tain amount of the action of the series would gen­uinely be too dis­turb­ing to get away with PG13.
when unit 1 eats the angel? i still have night­mares about that all these years later! maybe i’m more sen­si­tive than the stan­dards applied by the rat­ings board though!

dai­ly­roach June 4th, 2009

i recently watched the new dune series and found myself swear­ing when i noticed that they changed some of the key quotes from the old movie if you go chang­ing things that are set in peo­ples minds, like out­stand­ing sto­rys and more than mem­o­rable quotes
its going to totaly wreck this film imho i hope they dont change a sin­gle word or emo­tion this story has a script i hope they fol­low it to the let­ter or not at all.

Keifer June 12th, 2009

Pac­ing, eh? Obvi­ously, the episodic “Mon­ster of the Week” approach isn’t going to work, not even for a tril­ogy. That could mean fewer Angels; they will prob­a­bly cut out some of the more ridicu­lous ones. Alter­na­tively, they could make the Angels into a sin­gle species (or sev­eral sub-species), like in Alien, and have hun­dreds or thou­sands of them attack­ing the city in repeated waves. There are some other routes with this aside from these though; no mat­ter what, the angel con­cept in the movie script will prob­a­bly dif­fer sharply from how it was exe­cuted in the animé. It sim­ply can’t be a straight­for­ward adaption.

Sparka­mus Prime June 19th, 2009

Between the suc­cess of Watch­men (it’s made over 30 Mil­lion profit so far before DVD) and Trans­form­ers show­ing how good CG has got­ten this will be made. I read some­where the Offi­cial mer­chan­dise, tapes, and DVD’s has made over “one bil­lion dol­lars” world­wide. I see this being R with a very Unrated ver­sion on DVD with an hour more of the scenes that made the MPAA scream “Hell No!”. Again, sim­i­lar to Watchmen…

Direc­tors I’m sure will sur­prise us big time. Hope­fully they will tell us who all approached ADV films say­ing “I want to do this” which means they are fans already and have seen it sev­eral times. David Lynch is very likely one since Evan­ge­lion has sev­eral trippy scenes like in Twin Peaks. It would be hilar­i­ous if one is Quentin Taran­tino since he likes Animé (remem­ber Kill Bill Vol. 1?) and freaky sur­prises which Evan­ge­lion cer­tainly has.

Cast… who knows but I hope the voice actors get cameos. They’ve earned it. Asuka’s mom should be Tiffany Grant and she’s even a red­head! Per­fect. Robin Williams clearly is a fan so make him a come­dian in the bar with Rit­suko, Kaji and Mis­ato jok­ing about the Evan­ge­lions leav­ing 3 meter deep foot­prints in the street. Cameo’s alone with Major stars should be interesting.

Cross your fin­gers Evan­ge­lion fans! Hol­ly­wood isn’t com­pletely a screw up all the time. Look at Watch­men and Transformers.

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Andy.t August 4th, 2009

My only hope is that the spirit isn’t lost, end­ing up in a big build up to noth­ing… like South­land Tales…

joyjoy August 28th, 2009

i think we need to start a peti­tion to make sure they keep it japan­ese and not make it all west­ern­ised.
and pg13?? what kid is going to under­stand the philo­soph­i­cal, psy­cho­log­i­cal, and reli­gious themes that give it such depth
they bet­ter not fuck this up!!

kaoru September 21st, 2009

i’ve been wait­ing 6 years for this. evan­ge­lion changed my life for­ever. Can Hol­ly­wood keep the magic intact? I am cross­ing my fin­gers. This is a story that needs to be told and if done cor­rectly, with an ample bud­get, would eas­ily rival star wars or trans­form­ers in its epic­ness. I am so tired of googling this (for years now) only to find vague state­ments from exec­u­tives at animé conferences.

mat­tii October 9th, 2009

Well per­son­ally i want to see a good live action of this amaz­ing animé!!

And here is a good cast that prob­a­bly will make a goo live action of evangelion:

Shinji ikari: Logan Ler­man
Asuka: Emma Wat­son
Rei: Chi­aki Kuriyama
Touji: Shawn Ash­more
Kaworu: Cody Lin­ley
Mis­ato: Kate Beck­in­sale
Kaji: Colin Far­rell
Rit­suko: Kristin Chenoweth
Gen­dou Ikari: Hugh Laurie

the images are in http://​rus​sian​rulete​.blogspot​.com

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here’s my pre­dic­tion, if this movie should ever actu­ally hap­pen.
In the US the chris­t­ian right is going to (with­out even watch­ing the damn thing) glom onto the idea that the “bad guys” are angels and the “good guys” are fight­ing them.

then they’re going to call the movie satanic, and raise a big fuss over it and try to ban it.

what’s even more fright­en­ing is if Hol­ly­wood tries to appease these peo­ple by butcher­ing the story.

There is a good chance I wouldn’t even bother to watch this movie, if for no other rea­son that sim­ply to not taint the mem­ory of a great story.

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Kazuki Mishima February 14th, 2010

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Green­Dame February 21st, 2010

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Eva Unit 01 March 2nd, 2010

The first movie grossed 20 mil­lion US dol­lars, the sec­ond 40 mil­lion US dol­lars, only in Japan!, and that’s only in the­aters, the rev­enues from DVD/bluray sales, rentals, mer­chan­dise sales etc. are not included. Just the Japan­ese mar­ket is quite siz­able and they are def­i­nitely mak­ing a lot of dough from the new Eva, and if they wanted they could cer­tain finance them­selves a live action movie.

A live action adap­ta­tion was con­sid­ered very early on, when the series was still on the draw­ing board, in case it would be successful.

Bar­bie Tovias March 10th, 2010

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O3O May 21st, 2010

Well, I would like to say that, y’know, some thir­teen year olds out there can under­stand Evan­ge­lion and it’s pyscho­log­i­cal, phil­soph­i­cal what nots. TT3TT I took offence to that…

Any­who~ I do hope they make a movie! Can’t wait to see it, if the trailer ends up look­ing good!

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