Live Action Neon Genesis Evangelion Concept Art

Xzan writes "CGNetworks has released some concept art pictures of the upcoming feature film of the anime Neon Genesis Evangelion. I think the characters look really ugly, especially "Ray"(Rei in the anime). The concept art is made by Weta Workshop, who also did the special effects for Lord of the rings."

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MIRROR - Images. In case of slashdotting ;-)

[SiGiN]

Only Images mirrored. here

Rumors

[MooCows]

*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.

Some more info

[grungebox]

If you want more info, you can check this site out. It has lots of info about the movie. Well, maybe not "lots," since there really isn't that much available. No director as of yet, and it looks like the release date is somewhere between 2006 and 2010(!). Also, it's supposed to cover the first few episodes according to the site, but unless the screenwriters are refitting a large amount of the story to fit Hollywood (which isn't always a bad thing) they'll be missing all the key plot developments and depressing turns-of-events that occur later.

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

Re:Just for kids?

[OracleOfTangent]

I'm pretty sure that a lot of anime fans do not, in fact, think that it's okay to have a woman raped by a multi-tentacled creature. You can't sweep all anime under the rug of pornography any more than you can with American cinema. "Anime" itself isn't really a genre any more than "novel" is - it's more a creative medium that people can use to tell any story they want.

NOTE TO MODERATORS: MOD PARENT UP

[Anonymous Coward]

Parent just posted a completely valid inside joke that noone seems to understand and moderates down because they are scared.

The joke in question refers to a magazine where they posted the actors they wanted for the live action EVA movie. Daniel Radcliffe was suggested for Shinji.