evangelion live action.

IDK

Evangelion was(questionably?)good, but a live-action-version might suffer from adaptation decay.

I mean until it starts showing we have no way knowing, and even then how are they going to portay it's squick moments?

Granted censorship laws are different in japan, I just can't imagine a live-action ver of Asuka's mind rape, Shinji dissolving in his eva and Shinji fapping over Asuka's comatose body(hey w8...)

Well I guess my main concern would be it would delve into a horror series rather than Humungous Mecha action with a Gainax ending...meh, more later

Its going to be extremely tough for it to translate well.

If you think about it, if a movie was to be made it'll have to avoid the pitfall 'The Matrix' stuck itself in.

agreed, gonna be pretty hard to make a decent live adaptation.

Yeah... the pre-production images looked complete shit.

And of course the children will become older/AMERIKKANized, judging from what I saw of the images. Shame...
It would be difficult to make money off of, though, so I wonder if they'll ever really go through with it.

Maybe if Cameron can get cinmatized anime popular with his adaptation of Battle Angel Alita, this could be next on the slate.

There's a few problems I can see with any sort of Evangeliion live-action movie regardless of whom makes it.

Back a bit around fourteen years ago when Evangelion was first making it's way over here, it received heavy criticism. There were two camps - either you really like Evangelion, or you didn't. Plain and simple. Reasons vary, but there are a few things to think of. Evangelion was brought over during a "transitional" period of anime publishing in the U.S. Many anime up to around 1996-97 was still heavily cut and butchered. While A.D.V Films did a very good job in keeping everything intact and from a dubbing standpoint it was actually executed very well, Evangelion was a departure from most anything seen before and the whole psychological ordeals the characters go through was way different than anything that had been brought over here before. Evangelion for some time was very difficult for a good deal of the anime community here in the U.S. to take in.

Anno himself was quote in a few American magazines back in '97 after the original run ended that he really had no clue how to finish the story. It came back to haunt him when the final portions of the series were finally being released over here by A.D.V. Films, and a lot of critics such as those in Animerica Mag. really bashed how the series was going after about the sixteenth episode (Remember, this was back when anime was on VHS and being brought over in only two episodes per tape. We had yet to find out that it was actually budget problems that were holding the project back, so all the blame originally was on Anno). For some time, the anime community just really thought the series was falling into a shit hole.

Another thing I see as being a hampering development is that there is already an effort ongoing to remake the original series into movies. I think this probably wasn't the best move. If they wanted to do a movie, they should have made a serious attempt after the End of Evangelion was published. Now, with the aforementioned movies like Transformers that you mentioned, any sort of mecha-style movie is going to require some very impressive visuals - that Evangelion simply isn't going to warrant - that won't see any sort of serious support.

I do like Evangelion. My fiancee' really hates it, but I think for it being a varying budget T.V. series it's extremely well done. I wouldn't mind seeing a live-action movie, but I think it's chances are already just really in a low point.

It's going to suck because any live action of games or anime etc has ended up sucking for the past few decades. Comic book heroes are doing barely well, only a select few are actually good.