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I should point out that the $200m mark is a rumor and Kamins, the representative for Peter Jackson and Fran stated: "The only budget the filmmakers ever spoke about was $145 million less the 12.5% rebate that you get from shooting in New Zealand, which would put it at about $128 million. That was the only number that was ever discussed."

For more details I suggest heading to http://halomovie.trivialbeing.net/ where they have a video/news broadcast and some footage of Jackson's response.

As an aside, they quote: "Microsoft is already in talks with other distribution partners and preparation for the movie will continue. Most of this development is at Peter Jackson's Weta effects studios in New Zealand, so delays should be small."

I've been waiting patient ever since the live action version was announced. Some of the people involved sound like they actually understand the show too... it has like, a 1 in a million chance of being any good, but imagine if it were? Hell would freeze over I'm sure.

http://eva.trivialbeing.net/

Slashdot seems to be a little slow on the up take for this. I had these images up on 14th. http://eva.trivialbeing.net/index.php?c=images (thanks for the links to my site folks). Anyway the point: A couple of extra images are available there now including a strange scan from one of the japanese issues of Newtype depicting a brown-eva-angel figure and an image of Unit 02 firing at an unknown target. (I hope to be providing a torrent of various large files for people to download in the near future containing wonderful things from the DVD. If I can ever get it sorted.)

Dammit! I only liked Eva because Misato had insanely large breasts! :P

Anyway, jokes aside, I have a bad feeling what this is gonna turn out to be. Changing the names, changing the age, this is gonna suck. And Rei was actually sorta-unique because her hair was nice light blue, and I know many fans like her cause of that. And from this link, it seems that they will only focus on the first couple of series. That means a sequel could be possible, maybe more. Why dumb it down? One of the reasons the Matrix was interesting because it made you THINK! I agree with the characters being ugly, but I'm not set my mind in stone until I've seen the movie.

They better make Rei/Ray hot or a lot of fans will riot :o. And is it just me or does 'Ray' sound like a guy's name?

*cough*

Character name changes. Massive rumors are currently circulating as to whether Rei Ayanami has been christened "Ray" and similarly Asuka as "Kate Rose". There is nothing concrete to suggest they have - as these names appearing on the images are very likely to be the names of the artists or costume designers who produced them. However, a few points to consider are; no other pictures have a similar name appearing on them, Rei and Ray maybe too similar to be a coincidence and why would an artist put only a first name down, especially if it's a signature? On the other hand, on the image it does say "Kate Rose plugsuit" and "Ray plugsuit" however these maybe concepts drawn by another artist to simply incorporate and show a costume design by Kate Rose / Ray. "Kate rose plugsuit" would then be required to distinguish which plugsuit design is being viewed. Kate Rose is a costume designer (i.e. the images were not drawn by Kate/Ray but they are an interpretation of their current designs).

That site has loads of other info on the movie as well.

I, for one, would love a movie of nothing but Shinji's psychedelic dreams as in episodes 25 and 26 of the series.