"Vaughn L.Porter" <vaughnp@pcez.com> wrote in message
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> "Allan Matthews" <allan_matthews@bigfoot.nospam.com> wrote in message
> news:MPG.19348f4bb6ca2cce98969f@news.randori.com...
> > 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?
> >
>
> Get the Wachowski Brothers in on it, WB will bend over backwards for them.
> It'll be the next Titanic: $US200 million plus budget, huge sets in NZ,
and
> starring (presuming they go with an international cast:)
>
> Hugo Weaving as Gendo
> Natalie Portman as Rei
> Hugh Jackman as Kaji
> Brittany Murphy as Asuka

Nicole Kidman as Asuka :)

> Carrie-Anne Moss and Misato
> Sigourney Weaver as Ritsuko
> and Elijah Wood as Shinji
>
>
> > 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  Bullet-Time scenes! LOTS OF THEM!

Not to mention big cool explosions and sparks :)

> > 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.
> >
>
> Yes, this is true.

Very true.

cOwMoO