(L) New Evangelion Project: Rebuild of Evangelion [Movies 1 & 2]

[the.Merines]

Originally Posted by Xellos-_^

Don't Eva already have a sequel?

His and Her Circumstance.

The mother look exactly like how a older Asuka would look. The father could use some work but He could Shinji.

Now there's a scary thought. Well, I guess I'll be waiting for some kind of advance trailer. Or news that Newtype is full of bologna. Or that it's a huge cover-up so Gainax can sell more EVA-related stuff. None of these would surprise me in the least.

Will it be covered in the October NewtypeUSA? If so I may actually have to buy one.

[eggplant]

The premiering dates for the 4 part movie has been announced.

Part One: July '07
Part Two: January '08
Part Three/ Prologue: June '08

Part Three (episodes 25 and 26 from the TV series/movies) and the prologue will be primarily new stories (new alternate ending), and while the parts 1-3 will partly use key animation from the original TV series, the background will be re-shot, and the music will be renewed.

[orion]

Originally Posted by the.Merines

They did say prequel, mid-series, ending, and sequel movies, right? I'm most interested to learn more about who Ikari Yui was... I mean, she's pretty much a mystery. And the sequel of course, depending on which ending they choose.

Actually, the only one to use that terminology is ANN.

This is what ANS wrote.

Spoiler:

Originally Posted by Anime News Service on 9/6/2006

9-6-06 (6:46PM EDT)---- Confirmed: "Evangelion Shin Gekijou Ban" Details
Apparent scans from the October, 2006 issue of the Japanese edition of Newtype Magazine (not officially due out on shelves until this wekeend) have appeared online, backing up almost word for word the information reported below. Images Copyright (c) Kadokawashoten 2006 / (c) GAINAX - Khara / Project Eva The title for the new film series is "Evangelion Shin Gekijou Ban", it will consist of 4 parts (First volume, Second part, Latter part and Final story) with the first part arriving in Japanese theaters in early summer, 2007. Staff include General Supervisor: Hideaki Anno, Director: Tsurumaki Kazuya , Character Design: Yoshiyuki Sadamoto, Mecha Design: Ikuto Yamashita, Animation Production: Khara (Color) Studio. The scenario of the 1st part will be written by Hideaki Anno with storyboard by Shinji Higuchi. Key points of an interview in the magazine with Toshimichi Ohtsuki of King Records have also been circulating. According to that information:
-The content is quite different though the time base of the story is the same as the original TV series.
- It will be a remake, however, it is not a re-creation but a "new work".
- The approach will be different than what Tomino-san did with the Gundam Z New Translation films, there will apparantly be a large amount of new material.
- Even if the TV series has not be seen, the viewer will be able to enjoy it. Though the content becomes easy, it is not redundant to those already familiar with the series.
- The technique that purposely scatters difficult words and phrases will not be used any longer.
- As an antithesis to current animation industry segments, it is an attitude on the production side to pull the act in the age that started from Eva.

The ICv2 link is in my previous post.

This is the ANS followup on 9/8.

Spoiler:

Originally Posted by Anime News Service on 9/8/2006

9-8-06 (7:22PM EDT)---- Update: Evangelion Shin Gekijou Ban
A few new details regarding the new Eva project, Evangelion Shin Gekijou Ban from the October, 2006 Japanese edition of Newtype Magazine:
- The cover illustration featuring characters Ayanami Rei Nagisa Kaworu is by Shunji Suzuki. Suzuki had worked on the Shin Seiki Evangelion TV series as chief animator and on the End Of Evangelion movie as an animation director. Although not officially connected by name to the new project as yet, his image appearing on the Newtype cover would suggest involvement.
- Images released so far depict Rei Ayanami in observably more provacative and animated moods than before. How will she change? The silent and submissively naturered character with her trademark blue hair and style made her an all time fan favorite of otaku everywhere, catapulting her to the top of the monthly Animage character poll for many, many issues.
- From Toshimichi Ohtsuki's interview: Just before this new project started up director Hideaki Anno rewatched the entire original television series back to back. Ohtsuki relays that he heard Anno say for the first time: "Eva is interesting, I did not think it was so interesting (laughing)." The comment almost broght Ohtsuki to tears.
- Ohtsuki goes on to say that it is true Eva has become a smashi hit animation. However, it's success caused misunderstanding and disarray has arisen in the animation field because of it. An overproduction of inferrior works was caused.
- Ohtsuki says the Newtype cover image featuring Rei and Kaworu symbolizes the new movie project. Japanese fans have questioned whether this is a hint at Rei And Kaworu's possibly being at the center of the new story or getting expanded focus in the course of the story of the films.

[Lambda]

I'm not really sure what to think about all this. For one thing, I've been wishing for some time that GAINAX would go back and do something like Evangelion again. But by that I mean something big, meaningful and new. I don't mean more Evangelion itself, which doesn't score very highly on the "new" scale. But whatever I do think, it makes little difference. There's no way I'm not going to watch, so I may as well just make up my mind once I have done so.

[MrProphet]

Additionally, ANS has learned the 3rd part (Latter Part) (which corresponds to the events of the movies and episodes 25 and 26 of the TV series) and the 4th "Last Program" will be mostly new stories and material. Parts 1-3 will use some key animation sequences from the original TV series, with new backgrounds (settings) and music.

http://www.animenewsservice.com/

LOL

So, that's it? A 45-minute glorified OVA? And the rest is just a recap with new music of all things!

Neon Genesis Evangelion: Death and Rebranding.

I laugh at the poor fanboys. You have been used before and you are going to be used once again.

"Mostly new material". LOL Rei says "Etoo" instead of "Anoo" and the fans debate the implication, while spilling more and more cash. 8)

[NeonZ]

"Mostly new material". LOL Rei says "Etoo" instead of "Anoo" and the fans debate the implication, while spilling more and more cash. 8)

They have stated that they'll drop the strange words and phrases in the script and that this won't be like Tomino's Zeta Gundam movies, so, the differences probably will be bigger than that...

[MrProphet]

Yeah. And they've also stated that this will supposedly a "new work". Now it is revealed that 3/4 of it will be just a recap of the old series. So there goes the trust...

It's simply laughable. At least Tsurumaki had the decency of creating a new series with Diebuster, instead of just recaping Top o nerae!.

[orion]

Let's give Evangelion Ultimate a chance.

Rebuild Evangelion 01: 90 min.
Rebuid Evangelion 02: 90 min
Rebuild Evangelion 03-04: 90 min total (45 min each)

They did also say new backgrounds and music along with key sequences from the series in Rebuild Eva 1-3. New material in Rebuild Eva 4. So, maybe he wants to say something else that he couldn't say in the other versions. Sounded like he had some regrets in the earlier article on ANS.

[FatPianoBoy]

Anno is such a scatterbrain sometimes that this info could become more and more obsolete as the actual release date nears, so don't go whining just yet.

[jtstellar]

"They have stated that they'll drop the strange words and phrases in the script and that this won't be like Tomino's Zeta Gundam movies, so, the differences probably will be bigger than that..."

hmm strange words in the original eva script? were there any? i didn't really notice

[jtstellar]

By the way among all these criticisms against eva.. i don't think there's anything wrong to have more and more things under the same animation like this. eva's simply lots of people's favorite anime of all time including myself and i always get lots of feelings when I watch this masterpiece. what does it matter if they want to make more and newer stuff for us to dwell on?
Most people just watch anime for free anyway, we should just be thankful. It is because there are so many complaints that we keep giving pressure to these gifted producers, and by adding in these "fan requests" they're altering their original creativity. it just seems the more they try to "suit" the complainer's tastes, the lower quality of work we get in the end. i've never heard of anything well done because they read some "fans letter" real hard and did something out of it. let's just be quiet and enjoy. Too many people didn't understand the story at first.. and they complain and suspect that eva's just playing with ambiguity.. and they had to make a bunch of ova's to make story clearer.. then they complain about the wording so now they need to make things more understandable? sounds like the idiotic public that elected Bush is at work again.. give us a break pls the general public. Anno was in depression when he made this series? ya well so what.. alot of artist's masterpiece were done in some sort of trance state, when they can express the art of a subject most freely.

[-KarumA-]

werent there also like live action rumors a few years ago... with pics of the characters from their back in the suits?

what happened to that btw

[orion]

Originally Posted by -KarumA-

werent there also like live action rumors a few years ago... with pics of the characters from their back in the suits?

what happened to that btw

Look here for more info.

[Sinestra]

Originally Posted by MrProphet

Hopefully not.

10 years ago Shinseiki Evangelion was a great self-therapeutic project for Anno that helped him crawl out of depression, which is the reason why he personally never returned to it anymore.

For Gainax, though, it's just a cash-cow to milk. Evangelion is Gainax's only profitable project ever, so intellectually I can understand why they would continue beating it, but it's nothing I'm looking forward to. Even if it's something like a "Kotetsu no Girlfriend" movie (which would be fun).

Couldnt have said it better Mrprophet i really dont want to have to go through NGE trauma therpy again

[mooP]

Originally Posted by MrProphet

Hiroyuki Yamaga, one of the 4 founders of GAiNAX, has gone on the record to say that Evangelion was the only profitable project the studio ever made.



http://www.anime-tourist.com/article.php?sid=299

When something is "really quite popular", it doesn't mean that it will bring you a ton of money. The people who make the most off the animation are the producers who funded the project, the tv station that broadcasted it and the distributor who made the DVDs.

The studio itself gets the royalties and maybe a portion of the profits in some cases, if the studio has played its card smart. The animators themselves make a pittance.

So, only when a monster like Evangelion comes, can a studio literally live off it for many years. FLCL and Honneamise may have been a work of genius, but it doesn't put them in the same league as EVA vis-a-vis popularity.

Well ignoring the fact that the head of the studio went to jail for tax evasion after the whole evangelion craze in the 90s, the interview you posted is from 2002. There has been 6-7 series out by gainax since then. Plus, you cant fuck with gunbuster or karekano :P

[the.Merines]

Some news... The release of the first movie has been pushed back to September 1st. Gainax put out a "trailer" which shows no footage but worries me nonetheless.


New machine, new characters, new story... My heart wavers.

Also, they changed a couple of the kata characters in the word "Evangelion."

this-
エヴァンゲリオン

to this-
ヱヴァンゲリヲン

we-va-n-ge-ri-wo-n

[FatPianoBoy]

Originally Posted by the.Merines

Some news... The release of the first movie has been pushed back to September 1st. Gainax put out a "trailer" which shows no footage but worries me nonetheless.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=xD8lZfITFdc

New machine, new characters, new story... My heart wavers.

Also, they changed a couple of the kata characters in the word "Evangelion."

this-
エヴァンゲリオン

to this-
ヱヴァンゲリヲン

we-va-n-ge-ri-wo-n

Video is MIA.

New Machine and new story don't worry me much, but new characters? As long as it's an addition and not a replacement, I can dance to that beat.

Note on the kana: it's still pronounced the same, but apparently it looks cooler to use obsolete characters where possible (and I kinda tend to agree).

[MrProphet]

http://youtube.com/watch?v=71_08RQZNEw

Classic Gainax wankery, pardon my French.

[Shinndou]

After watching that small "trailer" I don't get if those movies are supposed to be a sort of recap or if they're going to contain some new original content. New characters? New machine? New story?

Eh?

[FatPianoBoy]

Originally Posted by MrProphet

http://youtube.com/watch?v=71_08RQZNEw

Classic Gainax wankery, pardon my French.

... I think Anno is trying to boost his collection of death-threats