Postby Gendo'sPapa » Wed Oct 03, 2007 11:10 pm
I'm sure casual readers on this site have seen my rants against the total disaster that will be a Live Action Evangelion what with Halle Berry Misato's and Nicolas Cage Kaji's and all (basically, any big name actor that says "Hey, I've heard of that. What I'd play Gendo? Brilliant, it gives me, legendary screen actor Matthew Lillard, a chance to show my skills!).
It's gonna be a shit movie. In fact, I'm of the opinon that all things Eva not centered around Hideaki Anno has been shit. This is his story (for better or worse depending on how you feel about the ending) and with Rebuild coming out now a whole 'nother version seems even more superfluous and unnecessary than anything ADV has done. (I seriously dread the day when a live action Eva DVD comes out with a whole 1 hour documentary extra detailing ADV'S rise to fame with Eva, chronicling how classless culture visionary Matthew Greenfield and his creative team of obnoxious Texas whor-er...actresses made something special. ...the documentary might mention something about some Japanese and this studio GAINAX...GAYNAX...who cares, it ain't Texas.)
I'm of the opinion that this movie is still NOT underway. ADV has given the same answer for the past five years.
Q: "Excuse me, is the Shitty Eva underway?"
ADV HACK: "Oh yes. We have a script. It's on DVD. The platinum Eva DVD's that is."
Q: "Do you have a director?"
ADV HACK: "Yes. As in second a Paul W.S. Anderson type comes along and proposes a Eva film that can be done as cheap as possible."
Q: "Is it not gonna suck?"
A: "I can't answer that at this time."
Anime movies are not going to attract any real quality directors sadly. The Wachowski Clan (not Brothers now, remember) delivered a brilliant film with Bound, and then a decent characterless Psychology 101 lecture with The Matrix but any sense of the little talent they had disappeared up their own asses somewhere between the 5th Kung Fu fight in Part 2 and when one of them got their cock cut off.
Basically, the way I see it is that Greenfield and ADV are a bit of a narcissitic company. I rarely hear them giving out props to the actual creators of the shows they sell but I hear them always drop praise on TIffany Grant's performance (her only talent was she made Asuka more of a bitch than every before....thats not acting Tif, thats being yourself) so I can see ADV wanting to get in the studio game and finance and control their own film. So I see them having a director for hire.
There's at least the warmth knowing it won't be as bad (or equally bad) as the in production DRAGONBALL movie. Directed by James Wong. A true third tier director.
So look at the James Wongs (Final Destination, X Files Movie, The One) of the world to make an Eva movie. Guys like Joss Whedons, Justin Lin's, and Kurt Wimmers will make an Eva movie.
Not the Cronenbergs, Lynchs, Scotts, or Stones of the film world.