More details on new Evangelion project
REI!!!
Either no one has bothered to blog about it or I didn’t look hard enough. So anyway, the latest issue of Newtype has a whole bunch of juicy titbits on the new Evangelion movies starting next year.
Click on to find out…
If you haven’t heard about the new Evangelion project before this, basically it’s a total of four new movies, with the first movie coming out next year.
I’ll just listen them out in the order they are mentioned in the magazine.
It’s going to be crazy. Crazy like the Eva that we love and hate. Apparently, Mr. Anno is working full steam. He’s happy that he can finally recreate Eva “as he wanted it to be”, because he’s no longer limited by the technology of 12 years ago, ergo lots of 3D CG this time. In fact, it’s so crazy that you will need to watch the first movie at least 3 times to “get” it. (Or so they say.)
The planning for the first movie has already been completed and it has entered the drawing phase and Mr. Hideaki Anno is working on the script for the second movie. The staff remains more or less the same as the TV series.
The first movie will revolve around the events covered in episode 6 of the TV series, basically Operation Yashima where Eva-01 takes down the angel with a positron rifle. That episode did not turn out the way Mr. Anno wanted it to, due to last-decade technical limitations, and he wants to make it right this time. Operation Yashima will be the climax of the first movie. Mr. Shinji Higuchi, the director of Sinking of Japan, will be in-charge of the Yashima portions of the movie.
NEW characters will be appearing in the second movie. (Please let it be Mana Kirishima!!!)
Although the uniform designs will remain unchanged, the NERV and SEELE logos will be changed. The NERV logo will be based on a bitten apple, while the new SEELE logo will be an apple with a serpent coiled around it. The new logos are references to the original sin as told by the Bible. Apparently, this reference may be paralleled by the movies’ story at some point.
It sounds to me that the first movie will be at least a partial remake and the second movie will branch off to a new story with new characters. I guess you can call it a parallel Eva universe?
As a fanboy, I can’t wait to see Eva with modern graphics. :3
P.S. Mana is the hawtest Eva girl. She deserves screen time!!!
MANA!!!
November 12th, 2006 at 9:47 pm
Hawtest eva girl over Rei? You are on crack! And bad crack!
November 12th, 2006 at 9:54 pm
Mana and Rei over Asuka? What blasphemy is this? Asuka>>>>>>Rei and Mana!
God-Empress save me, but I can feel my old Eva fanboyism coming back. It’s amazing, the sort of influence that a decade-old anime can still hold over a person.
November 12th, 2006 at 10:23 pm
Ooh, I want to see those new logos. Even though the original NERV logo is iconic, of course.
November 12th, 2006 at 10:30 pm
I hate all this ‘finally how I wanted to do it’ crap.
November 12th, 2006 at 10:56 pm
>>Mr. Shinji Higuchi, the director of Sinking of Japan, will be in-charge of the Yashima portions of the movie
Haruhi-sama have mercy on us all.
November 12th, 2006 at 11:00 pm
I’m not saying anything about the movies will turn out, but, the “make it the way I want to” statement made by Anno strongly echos the sentiments of George Lucas when he was creating the Star Wars prequels.
I’ll leave you to make your own judgments.
November 12th, 2006 at 11:33 pm
And here I though those technical limitations were what made eva great. when you don’t have much animation you start getting artsy. ugh cg and eva just sound wrong in my mind.
November 12th, 2006 at 11:41 pm
yes mana would be a nice addition but she is still no match for REI!!!
ayanami-san T_T
November 13th, 2006 at 1:22 am
Asuka is clearly the best. Suicide in empty tub ftw.
November 13th, 2006 at 3:58 am
>>>He’s happy that he can finally recreate Eva “as he wanted it to be”, because he’s no longer limited by the technology of 12 years ago, ergo lots of 3D CG this time.
**shudder**
Visions of JarJar, overly busy CG effects, shoddy storytelling, and bad acting are all coming back to me… And Anno wasn’t exactly the most coherent storyteller to begin with…
November 13th, 2006 at 5:15 am
>>>The NERV logo will be based on a bitten apple
Can you say apple lawsuit? Or maybe Anno is hinting at the true nature of Steve Jobs company?! ZOMG!
November 13th, 2006 at 6:48 am
Everyone knows Eva-01’s truly the hottest girl in the show.
November 13th, 2006 at 10:21 am
>>What blasphemy is this? Asuka>>>>>>Rei and Mana!
I agree.
Sounds very interesting. I’d blogged it if I knew about it… but blame Pangya! … damn golf is addictive.
November 13th, 2006 at 1:00 pm
Bitten apple… like Apple’s logo?
November 13th, 2006 at 1:41 pm
The George Lucas parallels are unsettling — although perhaps not entirely unexpected to the cynics among us. The words “I have a bad feeling about this…” began to dominate feelings of excitement and anticipation not long after factual scoops on “Rebuild” started to appear.
I anticipate that Pen^2 (2007-8) will actually speak and make many failed attempts at physical comedy. Overall, the new films will be made of flashiness, suck, and fail. Even if they aren’t, I doubt they will have the soul of the original.
November 13th, 2006 at 2:44 pm
This all sounds very interesting, though I pray to GOD that they won’t be putting Mana in the second movie. A new character would be interesting though; wasn’t that the one GAINAX was doing contests for over in Japan?
November 13th, 2006 at 4:36 pm
I LOVE YOU MANA!
(sorry rei)
November 13th, 2006 at 7:51 pm
>>>Can you say apple lawsuit? Or maybe Anno is hinting at the true nature of Steve Jobs company?! ZOMG!
You mean the Apple Records (the record company founded by the Beatles) vs Apple Computers series of lawsuits? (all started by the logo)
LOL on the “true nature” thing.
As for who’s the hottest girl, I’m afraid I concur with Darkmirage. Ever since I got to play the fansubbed version of NGE Girlfriend of Steel 2, I was completely smitten with Mana Kirishima. Though the new Rei Ayanami as seen in the manga (the bubbly and sometimes tsundere Rei) is getting my attention as well (perhaps if this Rei is what goes to the movies I’ll really check them out).
November 13th, 2006 at 10:22 pm
ANGST! More shinji-existential-dispair-i-can’t-live-angst!!!!!