At the Wellginton Armageddon Pop Culture Con, Richard Taylor spoke about his enthusiasm for the Evangelion live action movie with a fan:

Thanks Tino!

According to one of our forum members, zandor117, who was present at the ADV panel at Anime Weekend Atlanta, ADV’s David Williams said that the Evangelion live action movie is now moving into production. We have seen no other report, even though the same panel was used to announce several anime licenses that have been reported by reputable anime news sources.

According to zandor117, this is what was said:

Questioner: “Is there anything new about the EVA movie?”

David Williams: “The EVA movie is now in Production”

Questioner: “Can you tell us the director?”

David Williams: “I am not allowed to say that yet.”

ADV has not yet commented further.

While this does not seem like full production (i.e. filming actors) or even fully fledged pre-production like set building, the main concrete news seems to be that a director has signed on, moving the project beyond the proposal and development phase. Previously, negotiations were under way with a shortlist of directors who had expressed an interest, but the decision had not been made yet.

Read the original discussion thread

Our friends over at Animestation.net, have posted a marathon interview session with Matt Greenfield which took place a few days ago at Anime North.

The Evangelion live action stuff starts at the end of video 2. In video 3 you’ll learn about Weta’s involvement, designs for “shell retrieval” vehicles and Greenfield’s projected time frame. A great interview all around.

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You can see the Animestation.net YouTube account here.

Trivial Being minion darthikari attended a panel at Anime Central (acen) this weekend. When the Evangelion live action project came up, Matt Greenfield said that the movie is still happening, and that Weta and undisclosed “big names” are still on board, but that he could still not announce any details.

The only news here is that the status of the Evangelion live action movie(s) seems unchanged by the announement of the four-movie animated re-make by Gainax.

More info on the ADV panel (without the live action news) here: ANN: Anime Central 2007: ADV Films

Discussion thread: acen update

Anatael is back with a new incarnation. He has spent the last couple of months working on a new Evangelion teaser trailer. As fan efforts typically go, this is something to behold. See if you can spot Asuka, Rei, etc. Without further adieu:

Continuing on the theme of the previous post, here are some fan made live action Neon Genesis Evangelion movie trailers built from the clips of a few well known movies. They are put together pretty well and I’ll leave you to work out who is cast as each character:

News seems a little quiet at the moment, so in the meantime I thought I might treat you to some fan art based upon WETA’s original concept images. This is really quite good, and may in all likelihood appear in my inbox in a few weeks claiming to be genuine WETA, as did that movie poster by Shok Xone Studios.

This image is by r7ll and a large version can be found Here

UPDATE: The issue, although not out yet, has surfaced on the internet with full page scans, albeit in japanese of course. Whilst no live action movie scoop, the news is still very big and concerns a “rebuilding” of Evangelion in the form of 4 new movies, the first due out next Summer (in Japan). A large amount of new material is expected in this project entitled “Evangelion Shin Gekijou Ban”. Check out our forum thread for all the details: Newtype Scans Discussion

Just a quick note to say that the next Newtype issue will contain a big scoop concerning Evangelion (or so is advertised in Japan’s September issue), whether this pertains to the live action movie is unsure. However given that a big announcement is due it is quite possible we may hear some substantial and important news concerning the movie within the next month. Let’s cross our fingers.

Some speculation as to what else it could be includes a possible new Hideaki Anno project as rumored at ANN.

For further rumors and discussion concerning the “scoop” Eva Monkey makes some good points with particular reference to the possibility of new Evangelion anime.

“Plug insert options on EVA 2″ - By Stephen Crowe - Copyright Weta Workshop

“Line drawing showing the profile of EVA 2″
By Greg Broadmore - Copyright Weta Workshop
This is a close up of an image previously seen within a unit 2 profile shot.

Nothing new to see, just more confirmation that everything is still being worked upon behind the scenes, as announced at the Anime Boston 2006 expo:

“ADV also made several confirmations during the panel. The biggest and most exciting of them all was that the Live Action Evangelion Movie is confirmed and is going through pre-production.” -Krazy Gamers

Thanks Camarokris