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Edited by Recon Number 54:
10/27/2013 5:05:21 PM
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Pacific Rim = no hope of a live action Evangelion?
I'm not going to take the time to point out the various similarities, but if anyone has watched Neon Genesis Evangelion and Pacific Rim, they are very aware of the similar themes and situations.
There have been rumors, and a lot of hope around a live-action version of NGE, but I am thinking that Pacific Rim has most likely put a stake through the heart of that idea/dream.
First off, Pacific Rim was much more of a traditional and "consumable" film. Probably far more than NGE could ever be. It fit into a playtime length and had sufficient story/plot and characters to allow that to happen in a single film.
What I thought would be the biggest challenge for a live-action version of NGE (besides the length) is that the NGE story is convoluted, long, very subtle (almost too subtle when it comes to some of the backstory and details), but most of all, the biggest issue is the main characters (Eva Pilots) in NGE. I don't believe that if the live-action version were to portray those characters as written (14 year olds with major issues, some of which address sexual coming of age) that it would be acceptable or palatable to typical movie audiences.
IMO, Pacific Rim (intentionally or unintentionally) got the palatable and acceptable "main points" of NGE (alien monsters threatening all of humanity and a united humanity fights back with giant mecha that use synchronized pilots) and avoided all of the "tricky" things that the NGE film would attempt to cover (and have a hard time doing, especially within the typical length of a film).
Guillermo del Toro and other major contributors to Pacific Rim state that they've either not seen or weren't influenced by NGE, but now that Pacific Rim is out, I honestly think that a live-action NGE would either be seen as a "copy" of Pacific Rim, or a too complex attempt at a similar movie. I would imagine whatever studio might have been considering making an NGE film would now see it as too risky and too likely to fail at the box-office. Which.... well, that means it is dead.
Your thoughts?
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live action evangelion is a god awful idea. mostly because it's an anime.
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Biggest mind -blam!- ever Anime live Action Movie No!!!! But I do like the anime.
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Live action adaptations of anime are shit It would butcher eva worse than the rebuilds, and that's saying something
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gtgtvt
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i know right?
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1 ReplyHonestly, I find the comparisons between Pacific Rim and Eva unfair because, aside from the initial premise, Pacific Rim really doesn't have much in common with Eva. If anything (an I hope Roach doesn't kill me for this), even a comparison to Godzilla is more valid than a comparison to Eva.
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It would be nice to get a NGE film, but live-action doesn't seem to ever be palpable for it, the show is great with me, but Child-Actors and the convoluted and odd story of NGE wouldn't work in American Audiences or Theaters, it could get made, then would probably only be shown for a few nights in select theaters like what happened with Death Note and those other Anime movies, not enough of a mainstream audience would be interested in them.
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5 RepliesI want a live action Gundam now.
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A live action Eva movie is never going to happen because the rights to it are probably going to forever be stuck in Development Hell because Gainax and ADV can't stop fighting over it.
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1 ReplyI haven't seen Pacific Rim. But if the only similarities are mechs fighting aliens... well, there have been plenty of shows/movies that have incorporated that in the past, yes?
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2 RepliesPacific Rim really was very similar to Evangelion, there were a couple nods to it throughout the movie. I mean, while yes, Pacific Rim kind of fills that empty void, all of the Evangelion fans want an EVA live-action film. Would it make as much as Pacific Rim? I dunno, maybe, but there should still be one. Would be insanely awesome.
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Edited by DragonzZilla: 10/27/2013 6:05:43 PMI enjoyed Pacific Rim for what it was. It was an honest movie, in a matter of speaking. But personally, I don't think movies are the appropriate form of media to tell deep and complex stories like the one in Evangelion (if what you're saying is true). It's rather inefficient, I think, since movies can get awfully expensive.
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I think there's always something that doesn't translate well when it's converted from 2d to 3d. Whether it be the story, the pacing, or the art. It can't be something that is tact'd on by Hollywood, it HAS to be a labor of love. And for THAT to happen, there has to be money in it. But the way anime is treated by western fans, i don't see it happening, and if it does, it might not work so well. The Gantz movies for example, a bit too lacking on the action, and a bit too fast-paced, and that's usually the problem with converting the manga stories chapter by chapter, they skip too much important details for character dev. But are much too long for the silver screen to be relevant. Sometimes in films like Blood+ when converted to the big screen, the art is iffy. CGI is almost always horrible in these situations. It just always has these three problems.
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1 ReplyI probably would never enjoy a live-action NGE. Too much stuff be cut or condensed. I would also overly compare the live-action cast to their anime counterparts and end up hating them because I doubt they would do Shinji and the others justice.
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I don't think the angels, or a giant naked 14 year old girl, would translate well into live action CGI. Best to keep it animated, as with the Rebuilds.
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9 RepliesPacific rim sucked. I understand that it wasn't trying to be sophisticated, it was just a homage to all the japanese kaiju films, but it still sucked. The only good part about it was Glados.
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InAfterIan
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A live action Eva just sounds like a bad idea to me. Too much happening and what-not.
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1 ReplyI've been wanting to see Pacific Rim. But with two kids.. I get to see Turbo.
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2 RepliesEdited by Gaara444: 10/27/2013 5:07:16 PMEh a live action Evangelion would fail in comparison to Rebuild anyways. The only people who would watch a live action NGE would be Eva fans and I doubt the majority of them would enjoy it if it was just a one move thing.
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10 RepliesPacific Rim is [i]nothing[/i] like Evangelion. At all. Zero. Zip. Nada. But for some reason, everybody seems to think PR was ripping off Eva. Why? OMG ROBOTS MUST BE THE SAME I swear, if they bring in Mechagodzilla for a Godzilla 2014 sequel or something, and it gets compared to Pacific Rim, I will devour people
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Make a hbo tv series.
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Robots fighting monsters is nothing new
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NGE sucks.
