Rebuild of Evangelion
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| Rebuild of Evangelion | |
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| Directed by | Hideaki Anno (chief) Kazuya Tsurumaki Masayuki |
| Produced by | Toshimichi Otsuki |
| Written by | Hideaki Anno |
| Starring | Megumi Ogata Megumi Hayashibara Yuko Miyamura Kotono Mitsuishi |
| Music by | Shiro Sagisu |
| Cinematography | Susumu Fukushi |
| Editing by | Hirofumi Okuda |
| Distributed by | KlockWorx and Khara |
| Release date(s) | 2007-TBA |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
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Rebuild of Evangelion (ヱヴァンゲリヲン新劇場版 Evangerion Shin Gekijōban?, lit. "Evangelion New Theatrical Version") is a tetralogy of animated films in the anime series Neon Genesis Evangelion. It is being produced by Studio Khara in partnership with Gainax. Hideaki Anno wrote the first movie and will be the general director and manager for the entire project. Kazuya Tsurumaki and Masayuki will direct the movies, while Yoshiyuki Sadamoto will provide character designs and Ikuto Yamashita will provide mechanical designs. Shinji Higuchi and Tomoki Kyoda will provide storyboards for the first movie.
In September 2006, the October edition of the Japanese anime magazine Newtype first reported that the new cinema series "Rebuild of Evangelion" would be released in the summer of 2007.[1] On September 9, 2006, Gainax's official website confirmed that "Rebuild of Evangelion" will consist of four movies. The first three movies will be an alternate retelling of the TV series, featuring new scenes, settings, backgrounds, characters, and newly available 3D CG technology, and the fourth film will present a completely new conclusion to the story. Another stated intention of this series is for it to be much more understandable and accessible to non-fans than the original TV series and movies were.[2]
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[edit] Film Titles
| Episode | Japanese Title | English Translations | Release date in Japan |
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| Evangelion: 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone | ヱヴァンゲリヲン新劇場版:序 (Evangelion Shin Gekijōban: Jo) |
Evangelion The New Movie: The Beginning | September 1, 2007 |
| Evangelion: 2.0 Division | ヱヴァンゲリヲン新劇場版:破 (Evangelion Shin Gekijōban: Ha) |
Evangelion The New Movie: The Exposition | 2008 |
| Evangelion: 3.0 | ヱヴァンゲリヲン新劇場版:急 (Evangelion Shin Gekijōban: Kyū) |
Evangelion The New Movie: The Climax | Not Fixed To be shown alongside Evangelion: Final |
| Evangelion: Final | ヱヴァンゲリヲン新劇場版:? (Evangelion Shin Gekijōban: ?) |
Evangelion The New Movie: ? | Not Fixed To be shown alongside Evangelion: 3.0 |
"序,破,急(jo, ha, kyu)", originated in gagaku which is Japanese classical music, roughly correspond to "beginning", "middle", and "end" and are used both to describe the acts of a Noh play, as well as movements in Classical music.
Although the series title is normally written using the katakana Evangerion (エヴァンゲリオン?), the film titles in Rebuild replace the e (エ?) and o (オ?) characters with the obsolete we (ヱ?) character and the infrequently used katakana wo (ヲ?), respectively.
[edit] International Adaptation and Release
No official statements have been made as of yet regarding the licensing and international release of the films, especially over an American release, leaving fans only to speculate as to which companies will officially release them and whether the voice actors from the English releases of the series and movies will return.
The first international screening of the film was in Japanese with Korean and English subtitles at the 2007 Pusan International Film Festival, alongside the Chinese films Assembly, The Banquet, and A World Without Thieves, and the Korean film Tae Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War.[3][4] The film was screened on October 12th as the closing film of the festival, in a sold out outdoor theater on Haeundae Beach.[5]
The first film has been further released in South Korea (January 24, 2008), Singapore (March 13, 2008), Hong Kong (April 3, 2008), and Taiwan (April 18, 2008). Australian-based Red Ant Enterprises has announced Evangelion 1.0 as one of 35 titles they will bring to Australia throughout 2008 and into 2009. [6]
During the 2008 Seattle International Film Festival, Evangelion 1.0 was shown with English subtitles. No discussion was made regarding licensing or marketing. It was a late entry sponsored by Scarecrow Video. [7]
[edit] Merchandising
At Toy Fair 2007, it was announced that "petit-eva (ぷちえう゛ぁ puchi eva?)" called Petit Eva ~Evangelion@School~ would be produced for Rebuild of Evangelion, though they would feature a very different "super-deformed" design. [8] A later announcement was made of these figures also being adapted into a series of video shorts, based around Evangelion characters as students and teachers at Tokyo-3 NERV School. [9] The Revoltech action figure line also features the redesigned Evangelion units from Rebuild, and even a special accessory pack featuring the Rebuild versions of the ESV Shield & Positron gun.
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ NEON GENESIS EVANGELION RENEWAL ANIMATION MOVIE. Meguriaite (2006-09-06). Retrieved on 2006-09-07.
- ^ Evangelion: New Cinema Edition. Newtype Magazine (October 2006). Retrieved on 2007-08-17. “It will be a work that can be enjoyed even if you have not seen the TV series. I want old hard-core fans and even fans who just know Eva from pachinko to view it as a single (i.e. stand-alone) movie. We welcome first-time viewers…”
- ^ Pusan Film Festival News article about festival, announcing showing of You Are (Not) Alone
- ^ Pusan Film Festival Screening details for the film
- ^ "Largest Ever PIFF Draws Curtains", The Korea Times, 2007-10-12. Retrieved on 2008-01-29.
- ^ Australia's Red Ant to Release Evangelion: 1.0 on DVD. Retrieved on 2008-04-26.
- ^ Template:Cite web url=http://www.siff.net/festival/film/detail.aspx?id=27586&FID=64
- ^ [1] ぷちえう゛ぁ/Official Petit Eva website
- ^ Petit Eva Super-Deformed Series to Be Made into Video. Retrieved on 2007-09-08.
- "Rebuild of Evangelion" (October 2006). Newtype (Japan).
- September 4–8 Anime News. Anime News Service (2006). Retrieved on 2007-08-17.
- September 9–22 Anime News. Anime News Service (2006). Retrieved on 2007-08-17.
[edit] External links
- (Japanese) Rebuild of Evangelion website
- (Japanese) Yahoo! Japan: The statement by Hideaki Anno and the bulletin movie
- (English) Anime News Network: Translation of Anno's statement
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