If covid never happened do people think they would have still made the original June 2020 release date?

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If covid never happened do people think they would have still made the original June 2020 release date?

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Postby Thesufferingpumpkin » Fri Feb 12, 2021 5:47 pm

Curious to know if people think they would of actually finished it on time if covid didn’t happen as it was another 6 months after June 2020 until it was actually completed

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Postby hui43210 » Fri Feb 12, 2021 6:18 pm

Yes, end of thread.
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Postby Mr. M » Fri Feb 12, 2021 6:20 pm

Yes.
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Postby pwhodges » Fri Feb 12, 2021 6:25 pm

It would have been releasable; and like all the preceding films work would have continued to tweak it further.

As is likely happening even now!
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Postby JoelcrNeto » Fri Feb 12, 2021 7:10 pm

Probably yes. Unless any unforeseen event occurred, and it was necessary to delay it for a few more weeks.
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Postby Gendo'sPapa » Fri Feb 12, 2021 7:24 pm

Yes.
They announced the release date a full six months out. Which means they likely had the day chosen internally another six months to a year before that.

If a once-every-hundred-years awful pandemic hadn't come along and caused chaos all over the world the film would have 100% been ready and in theaters on June 27, 2020.

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Postby ArtyumR » Sat Feb 13, 2021 2:44 am

NO.
They didn't finish the movie at the time and everything was still in progress, for what we know this not the case anymore.

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Postby Line » Sat Feb 13, 2021 2:59 am

Yes. I think so.
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Postby GhostlyOcam » Sat Feb 13, 2021 5:33 am

View Original PostArtyumR wrote:NO.
They didn't finish the movie at the time and everything was still in progress, for what we know this not the case anymore.

There was a lockdown last March and it pretty much halted almost everything in the world.

Ogata herself said since they had to do WFH, the production which was very much on-track to be finished by late spring/early summer ended up slowing down significantly along with voiceover works being paused (it happened to basically all animes, even the airing ones), of course they couldn't finish it come June considering the circumstances.

So I'd say, YES. We probably would've seen the Bluray release too right now.
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Postby Blockio » Sat Feb 13, 2021 10:34 am

Yeah, you don't just go over the release date without a very good reason. Anno has taken eight years to make Shin, what makes you think he would set a rushed finish date he can't hold? The man is a perfectionist. The movie was ready (or almost ready and would have been if not for the lockdowns) to be released in June, all work after that was just extra polishing that would have otherwise gone into the home video release
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Postby Velorex » Sun Feb 14, 2021 7:53 am

View Original PostThesufferingpumpkin wrote:Curious to know if people think they would of actually finished it on time if covid didn’t happen as it was another 6 months after June 2020 until it was actually completed

NO

I believe the film was not finished.
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Postby Zusuchan » Sun Feb 14, 2021 8:37 am

Of course the film was not finished when they decided to delay it-it was however close enough to being finished that Khara could reasonably expect to meet the release date without problems.

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Postby FreakyFilmFan4ever » Sun Feb 14, 2021 8:58 am

Absolutely yes.

View Original PostVelorex wrote:NO

I believe the film was not finished.

Few movies are finished months before their release date. In fact, a movie being "finished" weeks in advance is usually a sign that the movie had been shelved by the studio. A lot of movies are making last-minute changes, and almost every audio commentary I listen to speaks of "Eleventh Hour" fixes and solutions to problems in the film in the editing room.

We most certainly would have had an extended/touched-up "X.xx" version of Shin Eva once it hit DVD and Blu-ray, but the original version would have been screened in theaters sans covid. I mean, Evangelion Q made it to theaters for its initial release date back in 2012, almost 8 years before being "finished" in 2020. I don't see why the same thing couldn't have been true with Shin Eva sans covid. (And who knows when Frances Ford Coppola will actually finish The Godfather Part III and Apocalypse Now, despite them both having been to theaters several times.)

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Postby Fredsq » Sun Feb 14, 2021 10:53 am

petition to correct `would of` to `would have` in topic title

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Postby Blockio » Sun Feb 14, 2021 11:21 am

good point, change has been made
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