There is no way this can be adapted to real action ever. It's way to big and to abstract to even imagine properly in a Hollywood flick.
That's my opinion, of course.
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I agree, too hardcore. It needs to be R-rated and only WETA
I guess to pull that thing off..
So, its waaaaay more complicated than lord of the rings and
way more ambitious than the matrix movies.
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BEST ANIME EVER. Period. I will go crazy until 3.0 is done....
I don't think the argument itself is too complicated. I can come to several ideas to make it on a real-action screenplay, but it's cinematically unpractical to show a 300-feet naked half woman half monster.
"Money is always important because money is a by-product of success." - Mel Brooks
be fun though
shareIf computer power increases as it does now, this would be a feasable indie project in 10-20 years. Too bad the acting would stink, possibly even more than in a Hollywood production.
If dolphins are so smart, how come they live in igloos
Have you seen "Metal Gear Solid: Philanthropy"? Maybe it's just 5 or 7 years away, joining a team like Hive Division.
"Money is always important because money is a by-product of success." - Mel Brooks
I don't know about the R rating. The Rebuild series is rated PG-13 if one bothered to look it up. Though, I can see where the R-rated elements would come in later.
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I'm an aspiring filmmaker. I hope I could be lucky and make it my living. Having said that if I strike gold and get big a live-action Evangelion(Akira too) movie would be my dream project and I truly believe it could be done. The world is ready for its first(good) mech movie.
shareit's a horrible idea. no matter how good stupid CGI is, it cannot do what animation can do. the images would never work with live action people around them.
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James Cameron and James Cameron only could pull off a live action version that wasn't neutered.
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yeah,totally agree after i watched it.
shareI don't really care if it's made into a live action movie, since anime is its own beautiful thing, but why is it so hard for it simply to be remade in live action, shot for shot with the same dialogue and bright, beautiful color scheme? Any image can be realized with perfect clarity today, and any story told by moving drawings can be told by moving photographs. Saying it can't be made is what prevents it from being made. I'm sure unambitious filmmakers agree with you.
The only N. American directors I can imagine making it properly are the Wachowskis or Wes Anderson. They would at least hopefully cast Japanese kids in those roles. Cameron's a great director, but it's not his style. It would be better if he produced it, putting his money behind a Japanese director like Francis Ford Coppola and George Lucas did for Akira Kurosawa.
Someone in this thread described a scene as being cinematically impractical. How can ANYTHING be cinematically impractical?
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I've always wondered why anyone would even want a live-action version of this. Some things are just fine animated.
shareAgreed. To do this thing properly, a live action version would require an astronomical budget. If an American studio were doing it (and, let's face it, a big budget movie of that magnitude would require it), then it would be cast almost entirely by big named American actors just so it would draw in enough of a crowd to make its money back. Plus the more questionable content would be slashed to ensure a PG-13 rating and the more heady subject matter would be watered down so as not to confuse the masses.
In the end, I see a very similar situation to the Scott Pilgrim film. People with no prior knowledge of the franchise would at best be in differed to it and turned off at worst, while the fan base would most likely be alienated by the changes required to give the property "mass appeal". No, I don't believe that an all-pleasing, big budget, SUCCESSFUL live-action Evangelion film is realistically achievable at all.
A Peter Jackson/Guillermo del Toro-directed, WETA-visualed, live-action Berserk movie series, on the other hand...
Yep, I think Pacific Rim is the closest we'll ever get to a live-action Evangelion flick.
shareYep, I think Pacific Rim is the closest we'll ever get to a live-action Evangelion flick.
I second these opinions... You folks will never see any better "from hollywood"... maybe a japanese version would be more faithful... but no one would ever see it in europe/americas...
As for example many japanese movies that don't have recognition, even being very faithful to the source material...