Live Action EVANGELION!!!

Rubedo · Post by **Rubedo** » Thu May 22, 2003 1:55 am

If they even mess-up MY favorite character (that would be rei) by getting some blonde hair bimbo to play her, I gonna........ Well, lets just say, that I'll be quite pissed.

Furik · Post by **Furik** » Thu May 22, 2003 1:55 am

Invisible Egg! wrote:
And it can't take place after, because:

[spoiler]The frikkin' world ended!!![/spoiler]

Not if you go by the TV series ending.

Invisible Egg! · Post by **Invisible Egg!** » Thu May 22, 2003 1:58 am

It happenened in the series as well as in the movie. The series just showed it metaphorically to confuse people and piss them off. Well, the production budget ran out, too. But in the movie, they got to show what happened in a more literal way (for the most part). Still, they ended the same way. Episodes 25 and 26 of the series take place simultaneously with End of Evangelion, but they show everything from a different perspective (inside people's minds, blurred somewhat into a mass-consciousness).

Sora · Post by **Sora** » Thu May 22, 2003 3:06 am

Going by my own hunch, I figure that the movie will not have any of the characters we know and love.

Unless they want to take a big risk.

It would be cheaper and easier if they had the movie be something of a 'side story' movie. I think that they might have the story take place at the American NERV facility. Perhaps it may detail the story that built up to Unit-04's explosion, perhaps starring the people who worked on it.

I think they would be smarter to do this, honestly, than try to find character look-alikes and thus disappoint Eva fans. Because I know as well as you do that hardcore Eva fans will say it's not as good as the original and that it's a travesty, etc etc, since they're biased.

Something completely disconnected from the characters of the original would be easier for them to handle and accept, after all. Also, it will enable it to be a stand-alone movie to be viewed in US theaters, thus adding to their income by attracting fans who know nothing about anime, but like movies.

But that's just my hunch.

Invisible Egg! · Post by **Invisible Egg!** » Thu May 22, 2003 3:32 am

That'd be a good idea, Sora. I wouldn't complain too much if they did the film that way. And there are plenty of NERV branches to choose from:
Massachusetts, Nevada, Germany, etc.

But at least a few of the characters from the anime would have to appear, if only to appease obsessed fans like myself.

Elk · Post by **Elk** » Thu May 22, 2003 3:33 am

Evangelion:
Sounds interesting... I love Eva.. but they better have good actors... Actors that actually look similar to the characters... Will the actors be american or Japanese?
I know they can't use the voice actors.. Shinji's a girl.

DragonballZ:
One word. Retarded... :\ If they try to make it like the series, I'm going to lmao.

I sort of have a bad feeling about Americans making movies based on anime; It's bad enough that they dubb it. (I realize some do it very well. ex: Cowboy Bebop, FLCL.)[/i]

Sora · Post by **Sora** » Thu May 22, 2003 3:39 am

As far as dubbing movies...

You realize, of course, that American movies are dubbed in Japanese, right? ^_^ Movies shown on television are dubbed into Japanese. I believe most theatrical releases are as well. DVDs will likely offer the original english with japanese subtitles, but it's just the same there as it is here.

And likely, Japanese movie fans would like to hear the movies in the original english >P

Elk · Post by **Elk** » Thu May 22, 2003 4:16 am

I realize that....
Most anime live actions turn out scary. Like GTO.... I heard it was hillarious by my 2 friends who are obsessed with it; but kind of scary.

Rhyste · Post by **Rhyste** » Thu May 22, 2003 4:39 am

Dude, the GTO Live Action Movie > You.

Kirby! Right Back At Ya has changed my life with its psychological profile of existentialism.

. H A C K // S O R A · Thu May 22, 2003 6:34 am

i am scared... i can picture it now a rubber Eva sute hanging next to a godzilla sute in a musieam...

Krono · Post by **Krono** » Thu May 22, 2003 11:28 am

i am scared... i can picture it now a rubber Eva sute hanging next to a godzilla sute in a museum...

>< what's wrong with godzilla?? he pwnz... you're hurting his cool and incredibely ultimate feelings....

I'd see a live-action dbz just to laugh... I wonder if it'll be anything like the live action dragonball movie....

I wonder what the live action akira will turn out to be like??

... I just wasted my 250th post on godzilla.... ><

Elk · Post by **Elk** » Thu May 22, 2003 2:35 pm

XD Then they can have Godzilla vs. Eva!!!!!!! or Sachiel... *_* *dreamy eyes* think of the scariness....

Invisible Egg! · Post by **Invisible Egg!** » Thu May 22, 2003 8:06 pm

Sora wrote:It would be cheaper and easier if they had the movie be something of a 'side story' movie. I think that they might have the story take place at the American NERV facility. Perhaps it may detail the story that built up to Unit-04's explosion, perhaps starring the people who worked on it.

As cool as that might be, I can think of a slight problem with that. Such a movie would end up being extremely boring, since the angels never attacked a NERV branch other than Tokyo 3. The main reason for this is:

[spoiler]The angels are determined to reach Central Dogma at the NERV HQ in Tokyo 3 to cause 3rd Impact (the end of the world). The angels Adam and Lilith are being kept in Central Dogma. So the angels have no reason to attack the other NERV branches, when all they want to do is bring about the apocalypse.[/spoiler]

If the live-action movie were to focus on the other NERV branches, there would be little to show besides the construction of several evangelions, and the accident with the S2 engine causing the destruction of the NERV base in Nevada.

I really hope that the movie will shed light on the back-story of the evangelion series. The events leading up to (and causing) 2nd Impact would be quite dramatic to see. Also, Gendo and Yui's relationship (professional and otherwise) would be interesting to watch, as well as the creation of Unit-00 and Unit-01. Of course this is only wishful thinking on my part, but whatever the movie turns out like, I just want it to be awesome.

Winged Warrior · Post by **Winged Warrior** » Thu May 22, 2003 9:41 pm

Invisible Egg! wrote: And it can't take place after, because:

[spoiler]The frikkin' world ended!!![/spoiler]

The world didn't end. Humans just evolved to a higher existence, didn't they? They went to the sea of LCL where A.T. Fields(basically, soul barriers) don't exist, and everybody's souls fill eachother.

Invisible Egg! · Post by **Invisible Egg!** » Thu May 22, 2003 10:02 pm

Winged Warrior wrote:The world didn't end. Humans just evolved to a higher existence, didn't they?

Well, that was the entire goal of The Human Instrumentality Project in the first place. To postpone the apocalypse long enough to give humans a chance to evolve, thereby escaping destruction. But if all of humanity dissolving into a yellow ocean doesn't qualify as the world ending, I don't know what does.

... maybe I should've said "the world as we know it"?