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NEWS: 2nd Eva Film Remake to Add Redesigned EVAs, New Girl

Proman: Not if it's more of Shinji-and by definition Anno-wanking in front of the camera.

GATSU wrote:

Proman: Not if it's more of Shinji-and by definition Anno-wanking in front of the camera.

Technically the wanking took place off-screen.

Just sayin'.

And you telling me that wasn't one of the highlights of the movie for you ? He wasn't doing it at us, he was doing it with us.

Anno is not f****d up. And never was.

What goes through Shinji's mind IS a reality of some people in the world which we live in; Anno was just brave enough to bring it to life. American Hollywood would never do that. Honestly, I think they're scared to.

/j

thanks for spoiling it for rest of the people who hasn't seen it.....

ADV has more than enough money to purchase the rights to this film, something they couldn't do back when the previous EVA movies came to the America.

ADV has becoming increasingly richer no doubt due to the profits if them having the EVA series in their hands.

I just hope whoever gets the rights release the film(s) with more extras and special features rather than the bare bone release that Manga Ent. did.

@Zac: I never said they did take over Geneon's "catalog", I just said they're gonna have even more money flow with getting paid to handle their distribution,

@Gatsu: Thing is, though, that I seriously doubt Gainax and all their investors are going to want to go with Bandai Visual with this in the states at least, due to their shoddy handling of properties recently (overpriced barebones DVDs, lack of dub),

and unless they go all out (which I doubt at this point BV could even put forth the effort required to make it worth their time) and get the original english VAs to fly out and dub it, then market the hell out of it (when was the last time they really marketed anything?), then by default, it won't yield the kind of profit it could with ADV at the helm (including theatrical releases, etc).

I just sincerely doubt that ADV won't be instantly granted the movies at this point, and if they don't, they'd do everything in their power to get it (to parrot other cynical posters, "they've been milking it for nearly a decade now").

ADV has more than enough money to purchase the rights to this film, something they couldn't do back when the previous EVA movies came to the America.

Dune wrote:

One can get that impression from 10+years of Gainax merchandise, unfortunately...

That's why I ignore the merchandise. In all seriousness, though, I'm firmly convinced that Anno's only fanservice-y work in the terms mentioned above is Gunbuster. (A great show, don't get me wrong.) Eva is just...not.

Thanks for the review, Michi! I'm glad that it turned out well, and am very excited to see this myself, as soon as the chance arises.

and Gainax doesn't really care whether their properties are dubbed or have extras here

ADV will have to make bold promises which surpass Bandai Visual's record, in order to get the rights.

I doubt a sub-only release is going to hurt the movies to a series like Eva, since they rely on a number of literary references which would require reading anyway.

If it effects their international sales, why the hell not? (and you're fooling yourself if you think it wouldn't)

Considering their relationship with Gainax in terms of Evangelion, I don't see why they wouldn't trust them with releasing the movies.

I mean, they've made a ton for a long time on the TV series, and are working on trying to get the live-action project off the ground together, what makes you think they wouldn't just go with ADV?

Bandai Visual deals with the Eva property in Japan (including merchandise etc), that's for sure, but then why didn't they release the series or movies here in the states?

I think you're making assumptions based on the Japanese market that are utterly flawed when applied to the North American market.

If you honestly think that sub-only is a good idea for a major release such as Eva, then you're crazy. You ostracize any viewers who don't like subtitles, and then you require everyone else to deal with the various high-speed dialog subs going by, while trying to follow the film and read soft subs for background text (signs etc).

A decent portion of people who have/would watch Eva (ie anime fans) don't really read much, and most likely don't get the religious/literary references, so that point is moot.

Also, you seem to make a lot of assumptions about the economic status of ADV, and that they "are stretched too far" for their own good (implying that they really aren't doing that good, and are just posturing).