Could a live action adaption of Evangelion really work?
How close can they stuck to the original without loosing an audience?
Could it work as a mini series or as multiple feature films and who should direct it?
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anything with a huge troony fanbase can work in current year
Is it possible to make it without any troony ideologies?
>Is it possible to make it without any troony ideologies?
Not if Americans are involved
>not if israelites* are involved
There is no difference there.
It’s not very long so I guess you could do a live action series but as a 2 hour movie ? No
The repetitive nature of the show is important
It’s like when Nolan wanted to do a Prisoner movie
It doesn’t work as a singular film . It’s the fact that 6 keeps on trying to escape and gets caught again and again is what makes it work
>The repetitive nature of the show is important
No it isn’t. Don’t be autistic.
How many monster fights can you fit into 2 hour movie ?
HBO miniseries then?
EVA anime should be something like 10 hours loung (including End of). So turning it into a 10 episode live action shouldn't seem too strange.
They're not going adapt the anime shot for shot, autist. They're going to make changes to fit the new medium.
2 or 3.
3 would be pushing it
Why bother? Pacific Rim already exists and comfortably sidelined the daddy issues shit that makes Evangelion so cringe.
>Pacific Rim already exists and comfortably sidelined the daddy issues shit that makes Evangelion so cringe.
You do know what happened to Pacific Rim after the first movie, don't you?
Nothing happened. It was a one-off.
Yeah. Do you know what happened to Eva after the first film?
There was only one Pacific Rim.
This.
I fell asleep trying to watch Pacific Rim maybe three times before I gave up. Still don't know how it ends
Eva is centered around children. That shit only works in anime. Once you have real children in the big screen having adult-like complex thoughts and existential problems I don't think is gonna be easy taking it seriously.
That’s why you age them up, dude. Easy.
you could probably cut it down to movie length once you get rid of shinji sitting around moaning about shit
>Could a live action adaption of Evangelion really work?
No. Some things don't translate well to live-action and Eva is an example of this.
no it couldn't work, and I don't want them to try. you lose enough essence when you move from manga to anime and add in voices. taking an already 11/10 anime and adapting it in a live version would only take away from that, there is no way it would be anything other than a pile of flaming garbage due to visual constraints and how much it would cost for production.
Get your head out of your ass, nerd.
eva wasnt a manga adaptation
the manga is superior thoughever
make mistaos boobies really big
and also asukas
It has a frickton of Angels so a mini series makes more sense, anyhow wasn't Netflix trying to make Gundam? that would work better as tv show.
A Gundam adapatation, if not narratively spiced up for Western audiences, would fail and burn so bad. It lacking the prestige of a cultural icon would turn the repetitiveness of the thing into a fatal flaw. Gundam doesn't stand out like Evangelion (with its mystery and angels and standout designs).
Gundam would work perfectly for two basic reasons:
>it's not stupid
>they've already had a billion different series set in different universes so nerds wouldn't have any legs to stand on to complain that they didn't do a do a 1:1 adaptation
This means they can make something tonally consistent (serious) about a sci-fi war using child soldiers as pilots for giant robots, and they can write an original story paced properly to be a film while drawing inspiration and tropes from the source material.
There literally isn't a more perfect anime to adapt if they do it properly.
It could work but only if they realize the average Gundam plot/characters won't do.
If I was doing it
>main character inspired by Hiro from Wing, 17/18 yo guy who's been a child soldier his entire life, mainly used as a covert hitman, cold and dark and shit
>other main character is a gifted autist, mostly "normal" but a savant airplane pilot from only messing with a simulator he hacked into or some shit
>story opens with a mad scientist for one of the colonies unveiling his new gundam inventions to win the war
>he explains that they use biometric shit and once they're paired, they're paired for life - only 3 in existence
>military general has a dossier with their ten best mobile doll pilots for consideration
>not-Hiro breaks in at that moment to kill the scientist
>explosions and shit
>autist ends up accidentally in the hanger by coincidence
>not-Hiro gets one, autist gets one, and military general gets the other
>autist is the voice of reason
>ends up becoming good friends with the colonies' princess who wants to end the war
>not-Hiro brings the gundam back to earth but realises that the people he works for are le bad and stuff and has a moral conflict
>ends with Hiro killing the general and then going insane and deciding that the only solution is to unite the earth and the colonies by crashing one of the colonies into earth, killing millions/billions
>autist has to stop him
Keep enough tropes but focus on gundams blowing up mobile dolls, war in general and how everyone in war is bad.
just adapt Gundam Mercury and roll in the ESG money
>Fed vs Zeon conflict
>As interpreted by Americans
I can already imagine the lack of nuance and heavy-handed MUH NAZIS allegories. Dumbasses in charge of adapting it probably won't even catch on that Zeon always were the "oppressed" underdogs fighting for "freedom", because that doesn't fit the standard Space Nazi blueprint. Why are they like this?
Or they turn them into Zeonists and make it Likud propaganda. Wasn't Jordan Vogt-Roberts attached to the project?
Only if the monster battles were done in stop motion animation.
Also, anyone remember Gunhed?
no
Yes, and I was bummed that it just rolled around.
I don't think you can get away with sexualizing teens in live action
No. The actors don’t exist and the world would not accept sexy 14 year olds.
>Could a live action adaptation of Evangelion really work?
yes
move the movie to puppetry instead of filming kids
i think Wes Anderson can film an evangelion movie with stop motion and puppetry
>puppetry
I don't think you get the point here
the only real reason live action adaptations exist is for broader appeal
my dad loved that GITS adaptation with black widow, his ass would not be watching a movie with puppetry or an anime. he loved pacific rim tho, dude would eat evangelion live action up
what i'm trying to say if that it's for the people who are "too good" for shit like animation
get in the fricking robot, shinji
I wanted to like this show but it was so painfully boring. It's like someone made gundam and removed all the fun. Every character was so mopey, except asuka, who was an insecure nag.
anime characters are white
No, too experimental, too violent, too weird and the budget needed would be too high. I rather they dont do it.
Get Darren Aronofsky to direct with James Cameron producing it like he did with Alita Battle Angel. Aronofsky's work is often downbeat and hes obsessed with religious shit, so he'd be perfect.
I don't think weird kabbalah shit should be more popularized than it already is.
>Could a live action adaption of Evangelion really work?
I mean on a technical level easily, it would just be pacific rim but all japanese people. But whether or not you could cast a good hapa Asuka is a different question
we will just have to create one
haven't read it so I can't say I agree. I'm inclined to disagree just based on feeling. I might check it out one day. I love eva.
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>it would just be pacific rim but all japanese people
No it wouldn't. If it's a US production, you'd have the inevitable raceswaps. No reason to keep everyone Japanese.
I actually really like not having an emasculated crybaby protagonist.
It's weird seeing people miss the point of Eva so hard, do they just like it for the dicky?
The point being daddy issues? I don't really like it period. I mean, I like how the EVAs look and the angels too and the soundtrack but beyond that? Nah.
>I like how the EVAs look and the angels
I love how Anno just wanted to make things cool but people read way too much into all of it
>do they just like it for the dicky?
It's the only reason I can explain it's popularity, the premise and the "point" of EVA alienates it's core audience too much.
>missing le point
Nothing is more cringe than an anime fan.
Evangelion is about escapism in otaku culture, making it a live action movie would ruin its very purpose
no it isnt. its about loneliness and how we can't understand one another.
well maybe if people just communicated their feelings instead of building giant robots
maybe you should suck it up and get in the robot
>How close can they stuck to the original without loosing an audience
pretty close. it's relatively normal until the end.
>it's relatively normal until the end.
Not if you make him a chink. He's white in my head, they all are.
hes Japanese
Yeah a white japanese
thats Asuka
that's everyone, all the chinese japanese got impacted, except the crippled bully he's got a bit of the slits going on
If the kids are hot enough yeah.
I just watched a dumbass Christmas movie about a talking mouse and young Santa Claus because the kid was fairly frickable.
evas have such fluid animations that arent realistic, they dont feel like robots but more like giant people. you cant do that in live action
anon...
Is this from one of the movies?
no its from the show
why's he wearing halo armor instead of a skin tight suit
definitely would have to be a series with the same beats as the original. even then, i think anime just doesn't adapt well to live action, very hard to get the same tone across without it feeling weird
One Piece was good. Rurouni Kenshin too.
Live action remakes are so shit. Someone tells you looney tunes are for kids then they watch the 3 stooges for 6 hours.