Live action Eva is coming

[bee]

http://www.comingsoon.net/cgi-bin/archive/fullnews.cgi?newsid1053461806,53778,

[Beat]

Oh dear Christ! Is nothing sacred anymore?!

[Kaiser0120]

Old news. ^.^

[Umino]

What the deuce?

[Jaguar]

Only three words can describe by utter dismay:
Oh dear God.

[shogunthethird]

time to bust out the lance of longinus/giant poultry fork of doom

[randomguy]

I doubt it ever happens.

[Conekiller]

I doubt it's ever gonna happen. why can't they just leave well enough alone?

[Karl Olson]

New spin on an old news (last time I'd heard about it, it was in the hands of James Cameron). Between ADV, Gainax and Weta (the FX co. that made the LOTR Trilogy look awesome), there is a chance that it could get off the ground, and further still, it might not be a half bad film, though lets hope they get Anno in on this too, and hope they go for 3-5 movies, each of say, 2.5-3.5 hours long rather than trying compact all 15 hours of Eva (the first 24 episodes + the end of eva ending) into one film.

[VinceA]

It seems like Gainax & ADV had some sort of reconciliation after their post-Eva disagreements. Maybe much sake was consumed at the meetings and this is the result - the drunken ramblings of happy Japanese & American businessmen... "I love you guys... how about we make a live action version of Eva. It'll be great. Pass the sake"

[Solitude1]

No thanks. :deedee: I'd rather EVA stay the way it is as an anime. Turning it into a live movie will ruin the orignality. Plus if it sucks, newcomers will think that EVA the anime sucks.

[Pepperidge]

This is not happening, this is not happening, this is not happening...

[Batmex]

Gainax needs money remember guys?

[Orion_of_Chaos]

why can't American companies just leave anime as it is?
they should all take the lesson that G-Savior painfully taught all who watched it...
let anime stay as anime...

[Andrew T. Hingson]

:eek:

Only bad things can come of this... very bad things...

[Mackenzie Rainelle]

::sighs and rubs her head:: I'm not worried about the plot, and I know the EVAs themselves will turn out damn cool..... But it makes my head hurt just thinking about who might end up being cast as the main characters....

[Catlover]

::sighs and rubs her head:: I'm not worried about the plot, and I know the EVAs themselves will turn out damn cool..... But it makes my head hurt just thinking about who might end up being cast as the main characters....

Shinji- The kid that played Frodo in Lord of the Rings.
Asuka- Nicoal Kiddman
Gendo- Peirce Brosnan
Misato- ?
Kouzou Fuyutsuki- Patrick Stewert
Rei- Madona

:p :D
(Remember, this is just a joke. I know these acters wold never be picked)

[Masamune2052]

::breaks into sobs::

Why!?!?! Who cares if they need money, you don't just go around making live action mecha anime! Didn't we learn from 'G-Savior', didn't we!?!

[Nick Biped]

My first reaction to this thread was pretty much "HUH?!"

I guess it's not the worst anime to make a live-action version of (DBZ, anyone?), but still, the only question is why (besides money, of course). And I don't see how they could condense a 26-episode series into a 2-hour movie.

[Dr Kain]

Noooo, why god why??? Well at least it has to be better than the DBZ movies that are being made, I hope...

[Pepperidge]

Christopher Walken should play Eva-01. Gilbert Gotfret should play the Mass-Production Evas.

[RZetlin]

How in the world are they going to make a live action movie from that off the wall storytelling? :confused:

[Will Sturnick]

I can't say that I'm excited about this.

[The Xenos]

I'm not really that negative about this. The fact Gainex is involved as well as a compnay that wokred on LotR has me hopeful. I wonder if Anno is going to be a part of it. I know he is working more on live action films though. Not sure if he want to go back to Eva.

Also, I don't think Cameron was ever really going to do an Eva film. It sounded like he just mentioned it or even just an interest in the anime when talking about making Alita and the press and fans took it from there.


Asuka- Nicoal Kiddman
...(Remember, this is just a joke. I know these acters wold never be picked)

Actually, for some reason Asuka reminded me of a young Nicole kidman. Ditto for Witch Hunter Robin.


why can't American companies just leave anime as it is?
they should all take the lesson that G-Savior painfully taught all who watched it...
let anime stay as anime...

Well actually, Gainex is in on it, so that makes me happier. Plus has anyone said this is going to be an American film? I wondering if it's actually going to be made in Japan. ADV is involved, but I haven't heard anything about Hollywood studios working on it.

-Xenos

[Batmex]

CG Evas would be cool.

[Andrew T. Hingson]

My first reaction to this thread was pretty much "HUH?!"

I guess it's not the worst anime to make a live-action version of (DBZ, anyone?), but still, the only question is why (besides money, of course). And I don't see how they could condense a 26-episode series into a 2-hour movie.

All of EVA in one movie... well there was "Death"

[Karl Olson]

All of EVA in one movie... well there was "Death"


which makes no sense unless you've seen the whole series already anyway. :)

live action Eva could be awesome.
it could also be all looks and no substance.
lets hope the former.

:)

[Kaiser0120]

Hmmm... Gainex and the production team for LotR eh?

Me likey. Me likey lots. ^.^

Usually, I'd be scared witless of ANYONE doing a live action movie based on Anime, but this really has be excited. I can SO see some spectacular action scenes and mindblowing special effects, along with good acting and maybe, just maybe, keeping the original story nicely intact. Maybe they'll do a series of movies? A trilogy? Maybe even six? o.o; Ok, I'm getting a little farfetched here, but it WOULD be kickass. I could care less if Anno is involved, honestly. I'm not a fan of him. ^^

[RogueMartian]

When I heard DBZ was coming out live action, my first response was to shout "WHY GOD???". Later I pondered the idea, and thought that it might be cool if everthing was done perfectly. Fox had done X-Men right after all. But after a while the doubt creeped back up and now it occurs to me again...Anime in live action?? What could I have been thinking, it won't be good. It will be bad. Really bad. And that was just a fighting anime. It actually has a minor chance of being cool since fighting animes are similar in style to films like crouching tiger.

Eva Live action? Lets be serious people, mechs are perhaps the most impractical and inefficient form of fighting tool. That's why we don't have them. So while in anime they look really cool, and are the height of fighting technology, in live action they will look stupid. Really really stupid. I mean dumber than goku's hair in live action. Now let's get onto the story itself. Eva is a complicated psychological 26 episode series. Even a 3 hour recap similar to "Death" won't cut it unless you know the story. And just out of curiosity, has anyone even considered how they are going to END the movie? Even the original creators didn't have that answer. And I don't care how faithful the makers want to make it, there is NO way they'e going to end it like the original creators did in the series or in "the end of evangelion".

However, Like many others, I am skeptical of either movie making it to the big screen. They announced the DBZ movie over a year ago and I haven't heard anything since. No actors, scriptwriters, or directors have been announced. And it's supposed to be on the "fast track". I'm guessing Eva will be the same. Studios probably just want the rights for a "just in case" and probably to make sure that no one else picks it up.

[Conan-san]

waht about thoes parts in End of eva?

[EscaflownePilot]

There is no positive aspect about this movie. None.

I don't care how well you think a live action movie based on an anime can be done, if it's being produced in the U.S. and aimed for mainstream appeal, it will be bad no matter how good it is.

They will completely overexaggerate the various character features (like Rei's blue hair), twist the plot around to fit the short time span of a movie, and overall ruin the greatness of the Evangelion property.
And if you think otherwise, reflect back upon movies like Super Mario Bros. or Mortal Kombat - those were fairly mainstream properties to begin with, yet they still completely overexagerrated every single miniscule of a cliche or character feature, and completely massacred the original property. Why would Evangelion be any different?

And if this movie is successful, think of what we'll have?

You know all those people in your family who think that anime is all "Go, Pikachu!" or "Power-up! Super duper ki blast!", and refuse to watch the truly great shows like Trigun or Metropolis? Well, guess what? There will suddenly be millions of those types of people (assuming this succeeds, of course) all of whom proclaim Evangelion's greatness, yet likely won't have seen 2 minutes of the anime - nor will they care to!!

And with all the other anime movies out there, this effect will only snowball! Everybody will know of Lupin III or Battle Angel Alita, yet not one will care for anime in the first place!!

Obviously, it could have the desired effect of introducing everyone out there to the greatness of anime - making everyone want to snatch up a copy of the latest volume of Noir or RahXephon as soon as it hits the shelves, and constantly watching Trigun or Lupin III on TV... but this won't happen. It will create the exact effect described two paragraphs above. It will ruin the chance of anime becoming mainstream in the U.S.

Ergh... I'm probably overexaggerating; no, I know I'm overexaggerating (and I need to pull up dictionary.com to make sure I'm spelling overexaggertaing correctly :p) but I'll still stand by this contention:
No positive aspect will come from this or any other anime movie. Ever.

[rad ed hologram]

This is bad. While the Lupan movie could be quite good (its really got no really hard to do aspects and the story is pretty accaptable to the movie format anaway).Eva is not like that. Its just too much for american cinema.(Not to mention the obvous backlash some right wing religious communities will have simply for the use of "religious" words like angel :rolleyes: )

Can you imagne the tag lines.... i can here them now......

Third impact is comming (insert date) are you ready?(Armageden style boom)
The worst tragity to hit Tokyo since godzilla....the angles.(cgi angel shot)
...and their will be plenty of fan servace.....(actully that one is a bit correct,to the show's style anaway)

*shudder*

I see only negative things like one summer its going to be all anime moves with dbz, lupan, eva and who knows what else in the works. I can see the people claming to understan eva without seeing the anime *shudder*.
I see the summer of 2005 as the summer of DOOM.

[Binaroid]

To honor (heh) this occasion, here's a link to a FAKE EVA Live-action 'poster' photomanipulation by Josh Gilbert, the man responsible for the (infamous/beloved on the Adult Swim board) FAKE Cowboy Bebop live-action pictures.

The End is Near...(but not here) (http://www.geocities.com/weapn_x.geo/Evangelion-small.jpg) (Edit: Cut and paste the link; it's on Geocities)

This is NOT a real poster - it is a FAKE created months ago. This has nothing to do with the ADV project. Link to Josh Gilbert's site. (http://www.geocities.com/weapn_x.geo/)

[Funkatron]

this reminds me so much of the eva movie parody on foodcourt...if only it was still online

tori spelling as asuka and david hasslehoff as gendo...lol

[Animation Otaku]

LotR team? I could take that. They deviated from the books in places but made the story still good. We could deal with some of the filler being removed and the fights being changed. 5 movies could probably do it.
The last being a recreated version of End of Evangelion.

[Beat]

Not happening. The movie will either tank, or be released as a shamble of what the 26 eps were. It's shameful.

[Conekiller]

or try to smush EoE into a movie with as much exposition to make the Matrix look underdeveloped.

I though about it, but if Hillary Duff could act, she wouldn't make a bad Asuka, she'd just really have to pump that PMS off the scale

[Orion_of_Chaos]

for reference, the team that made the LotR movies is not making the Eva movie, according to that article...
it's the company that did the special effects, makeup, etc for LotR that is supposedly working on Eva...

so much for your meager dosage of hope...

[EscaflownePilot]

Fine by me. The Lord of the Rings movie was boring with a capital b, and I certainly wouldn't want Evangelion to suffer the same fate. I prefer a movie to actually keep me awake. And before you pick on me, I'm saying this as a huge fan of the LotR books.

[Kaiser0120]

I thought the movies were exciting and very well told.

I guess I'm the only one in here who has hopes for this movie. I still think that they'll release a series of movies instead of just one. I also think they'll keep nicely to the charecters, storyline and even the religious aspects. I'd love to see a CGI Evangelion.

And EscaflownePilot: Bite me. Bite me hard. You're insulting, you're hard headed, and you're ticking me the heck off. I'm dumb to be optamistic? Well, you're stupid for being pessimistic. -.- The LotR movies made ALOT of people want to read the books. I really think that THREE Anime based live action movies could do SOMETHING for the anime market.

Ok, I'm done. -.-

[Masamune2052]

There's also the deal with making them look like they're 14 yrs old, and yes, it's crucial to the story so they just can't go by it. Oh ya, they'll have to find one *****y girl to play Asuka.

[Animation Otaku]

There's also the deal with making them look like they're 14 yrs old, and yes, it's crucial to the story so they just can't go by it. Oh ya, they'll have to find one *****y girl to play Asuka.

If she hot, and can act(though that isn't as important), I could care less. They'll have to make sure she's as big as Asuka though, and I ain't talking about height.

[j32885]

Well we all know that DBZ and NGE are going to made into live action movies.

What animes have been announce will be turn into live action movies?

[Kaiser0120]

Battle Angel Alita, and Akira. Akira hasn't had ANY news about it in a while, though.

[The Xenos]

Stuff like this news of Eva or even Alita don't have me as worried as Akira.

First, a side note, Akira was a smooshed version of the manga. It still was a fantastic movie and did as well as any 2 hour film can do to adapt a huge series. Kinda reminds me of X-Men in that way.

Anyway, this Hollywood Akira has me worried. It's being done by the same people who are making The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. I loved the book and this movie is a complate abotion of an adapttion of it. They took a smart British adventure novel and made it a dumbed down Hollywood action blockbuster. Very sad. Imagine what they will do to Akira. Hope it doens't happen. Stephen Norrington scares me. And as much as I love Robinson's Starman comics, I can't belive he's involved with either film.

Anyway, I have a lot more hope for Evangleion. Heck, not even sure how involved anyone from Hollywood is in it. The fact Gainex is on it makes me feel good about it.

-Xenos

[Beat]

Stuff like this news of Eva or even Alita don't have me as worried as Akira.

First, a side note, Akira was a smooshed version of the manga. It still was a fantastic movie and did as well as any 2 hour film can do to adapt a huge series. Kinda reminds me of X-Men in that way.

Anyway, this Hollywood Akira has me worried. It's being done by the same people who are making The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. I loved the book and this movie is a complate abotion of an adapttion of it. They took a smart British adventure novel and made it a dumbed down Hollywood action blockbuster. Very sad. Imagine what they will do to Akira. Hope it doens't happen. Stephen Norrington scares me. And as much as I love Robinson's Starman comics, I can't belive he's involved with either film.

Anyway, I have a lot more hope for Evangleion. Heck, not even sure how involved anyone from Hollywood is in it. The fact Gainex is on it makes me feel good about it.

-Xenos

I remember reading a rumor that Aston Kutcher, star of That 70's show, and Dude, Where's my car tried out for Kaneda, but he was unimaiously dismissed by the producers. That's a good sign.

[Jaguar]

I remember reading a rumor that Aston Kutcher, star of That 70's show, and Dude, Where's my car tried out for Kaneda, but he was unimaiously dismissed by the producers. That's a good sign.
And to think, I was just geting ready for Kaneda: Kelso version. :p

[Karl Olson]

And to think, I was just geting ready for Kaneda: Kelso version. :p


Dude, where's my bike?

</horrid thought>

Anyway, even when Gainax is blantantly commmercial, usually there's something good about it. As long as they get final say on things, it could pretty good set of a films, though as one film, it might just not work no matter what.

[1_Otaku]

Weren't their suppose to be plans for making a live-action Ghost in the Shell movie?

[Kaiser0120]

Weren't their suppose to be plans for making a live-action Ghost in the Shell movie?

*Points to the Matrix. J/K ^.^*

[Jimmy Kustes]

To honor (heh) this occasion, here's a link to a FAKE EVA Live-action 'poster' photomanipulation by Josh Gilbert, the man responsible for the (infamous/beloved on the Adult Swim board) FAKE Cowboy Bebop live-action pictures.

The End is Near...(but not here) (http://www.geocities.com/weapn_x.geo/Evangelion-small.jpg) (Edit: Cut and paste the link; it's on Geocities)

This is NOT a real poster - it is a FAKE created months ago. This has nothing to do with the ADV project. Link to Josh Gilbert's site. (http://www.geocities.com/weapn_x.geo/)

FUN! Shhh! Watch the fun!
http://forums.toonzone.net/showthread.php?postid=805867#post805867

[StrangerAtaru]

Sometimes I wonder why people can't make their own scripts instead of constantly adapting things many people don't care about now and probably won't care about as they leave the theater. Sure some good can still come about, but....I guess I am too cynical as of late.

As for EVA in a live-action version, I just can't see that happening. Sure they could try, but once they get to the part where they really get controversial and talkative (AKA ep. 16 and beyond.,...or was it 15), I don't know if anyone will be awake outside of the scrutinizing anime fans.

Of course, if they want a perfect ending, they could have:
THE CHAIR!!!

BTW: There is no flesh and blood human alive who can give Asuka justice, so that's yet another strike against it!

[Frodo]

I Personly Think This Movie Will Be ****ING Awsome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Vyse]

Since this thread has been brought back up, check out the latest issue of Anime Insider (SD Gundam or Kenshin cover). It features some concept artwork WETA Workshop came up with for the film.

Don't forget to get the NGE: Director's Cut coming out this month! It will include even more concept art and an interview with WETA Workshop(I think)!

[wednesday luxe]

dude...is that devon sawa playing fake-shinjii *shivers* Anywho, I think (if done right) it could turn out to be a really cool movie. But I wouldn't expect it to be made for another 5+ years....

Oh, and I heard Lupin and the Irresponsible Captain Tylor are being considered to be live actionated....

[Andrew T. Hingson]

dude...is that devon sawa playing fake-shinjii *shivers* Anywho, I think (if done right) it could turn out to be a really cool movie. But I wouldn't expect it to be made for another 5+ years....

Oh, and I heard Lupin and the Irresponsible Captain Tylor are being considered to be live actionated....
Either him or Elijah Wood.

[Frodo]

I Am Personaly All For Certain Anime Being Made Into Live-ActionBecause It Would Be So ****ing Cool!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:sad:

[Swordfish_II]

*watched WETA interview on EVA: Resurrection DVD*

My expectations have been lowered.

[Beat]

I take solace in the fact that there are many big budget adaptations that crash and burn. Example- Zen: Intergalactic Ninja.

[GrantM]

*watched WETA interview on EVA: Resurrection DVD*

My expectations have been lowered.
Why is that?

[Swordfish_II]

Why is that?
They've kinda overhauled several characters.

Ray?
http://www.angelfire.com/anime5/swordfish_ii/Unit_0_plugsuit.JPG

Kate Rose?
http://www.angelfire.com/anime5/swordfish_ii/Unit_02_plugsuit.JPG

Though, Unit 01 looks cool.
http://www.angelfire.com/anime5/swordfish_ii/Unit_01_full.JPG

[randomguy]

The overhauls don't really bother me. I didn't expect them to keep the Japanese names and locale... I imagine the setting will be changed to a similiar American location. Something like New York or LA.

And having the main characters as 14 years old isn't essential to the storyline. They can just change the "only 14 year olds can pilot the EVA" rule to "only 20 year olds can pilot the EVA", without really hurting the content of the series. No big whoop.

I wonder what happened to Lupin and Akira... I was hoping Lupin might get picked up by Spielberg. And I'm reasonably cofident that if Akira gets made, the League of Extraordinairy Gentlemen guys won't be involved (because we all know how that turned out).

[Swordfish_II]

And having the main characters as 14 years old isn't essential to the storyline. They can just change the "only 14 year olds can pilot the EVA" rule to "only 20 year olds can pilot the EVA", without really hurting the content of the series. No big whoop.
That is kind of an essential plot point because a 14 year old isn't mature. That was one of the shows major theme.

[rad ed hologram]

Just got my copy of the d-cut eva and I must say, I tend to agree with Swordfish_II.

The Evas look amazingly cool. So does Nerv HQ as does the overall. Also the fact that the design team seems to care about the show and message behind it.

That said

They seems to care about the established fan base some of them being fans themselves. What on earth would possess them to change the most important part of the show the characters THAT much. Kate Rose .... why change a name like Askua to that? Why? :confused: Gah.

The new looks (the characters not the eva's) are also a bit grating. I don't want to say bad beacuse if it wasn't eva they would be pretty darn cool, but they seem so oddly out of place with the original story. Yes having the characters at 14 may not appeal to the general movie going public but it is important to the very time line of events. As in compleatly messing up the whole Kaoru thing unless they cahange the whole time period but... I give up im still hoping it turns out awsome but, my hope is now a bit tarnished still optimistic caus i got no control either way.:)

[lostrune]

It does not matter what WETA's drawings of the characters look like because it'd be live-action. Those drawings will be replaced by real people who, in the end, most likely won't look too much like the drawings (depending on which actors/actresses they get).

The Japanese -> American/Caucasian shift is to be expected though, like the Ring remake. Financial backers wouldn't lay down $100 million for Japanese characters that the huge American market would not watch. Just like the Japanese putting Japanese protagonists into their shows (e.g. the F-Zero anime, with an all-new Japanese main protagonist).

In short, think the Ring remake. That's how the NGE movie most likely gonna be treated.

[Artimus Gigan]

Ya know I'm thinking this will be similar to The X-Men movies or Spiderman movies in terms of continuity. It's it's own thing, but considering how well LOTR was adapted from a pre-existing property, not to mention the comic book movies I sated above, Eva is going to have to be of that same calibur or greater, quite frankly it would be interesting to see how it will be trated but I hope they don't try to compress alot into 90 minutes, because that usualy leads to suck. I could go for a 3 hr eva movie, it could leave off when an angel attacks, and the seonc movie would be about more angels attacking and the evas being the line of defence, and the third movie I hope won't be one of those I WILL CRUSH YOUR MINDS WITH CINEMATOGRAPHY Deals, I mean they could make a new ending...I sorta liked the feeling at the end of FLCL, where the menace has been vanquished to far away unknown regions, they could do somthing like that for the vanquishing of the angels.

Wait I just thought of somthing, what if they decided to make a LA FLCL?
They could asicly re-inact the whole series IN Live action 3 hours total....that could work.

[Beat]

If it never sees the light of day, it would be no big loss.

[Sandoz]

Looking at the designs on the WETA extra, I have to say NERV and Tokyo-3 (or New York-3, or whatever it's going to be) are pretty spiffy. But...Kate Rose? [fangirl whine] They couldn't at least keep the "Langley"? [/fangirl whine]

[lostrune]

If it never sees the light of day, it would be no big loss.

Well yeah. Eva the story is pretty much over, so most fans don't feel much incompleteness (just confusing interpretations). This is just the producers (ADV and Gainax) trying to get icing on the cake. :D