In article <HIwya.17710$HP4.14940@fe08.atl2.webusenet.com>, 
beetao@bellsouth.net says...
> http://www.comingsoon.net/cgi-bin/archive/fullnews.cgi?newsid1053461806,5377
> 8,

I see one MAJOR thing missing here - an actual MOVIE studio.  Without 
the financial backing that one of those can bring anything that Gainax 
and ADV can put together will be lower budget than, say, Babylon 5.  And 
just how much can the Weta Workshop do on that sort of shoestring?

And, besides, do we really need a live action NGE?  I can see the 
Children now, traipsing around in their new black leather plug suits (a 
la the X Men movies) and Shinji muttering lines like "Guns.  Lots of 
guns."

And, unless some Japanese studio finances it (which will mean Americans 
probably won't go to see it), do you really think an American studio is 
going to go with a cast that is utterly Japanese?  Let's see...  Asuka 
can be complete German this time, but that silly Japanese name will have 
to go, so call her...  Valkirie.  And Rei...  let's ditch that whole 
socially and sexually uncomfortable clone thing and give her the skin 
tone and street smarts of someone from the 'hood.  And speaking of 
sex...  Shinji, or whatever they call him (Stevie, for example) will 
have to have scored with at least one of them by the movie's half way 
point.  And you can just FORGET about any innuendo with that Kaworu 
character...  Etc, etc, etc.

It could turn into a worse fiasco than the Thunderbirds movie is shaping 
up to be.

Some things are better left ALONE.

allan
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