Rebuild of Evangelion
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Rebuild of Evangelion is an announced series of four animated films in the anime series Neon Genesis Evangelion.
In September 2006, the October edition of the Japanese anime magazine Newtype reported that the new cinema series "Rebuild of Evangelion" will be released in the summer of 2007.
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 (including many new scenes, settings, backgrounds, characters), and the fourth movie will be a completely new conclusion to the story. Hideaki Anno will write the scenario for the first movie and will be the general director and manager for the entire project. Kazuya Tsurumaki will direct the movies while Yoshiyuki Sadamoto will provide character designs and Ikuto Yamashita will provide mechanical designs. Shinji Higuchi will provide storyboards for the first movie. The first one will launch in Summer 2007, the second in January 2008, and the third and final movies will be shown together in Summer 2008.
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From Variety: Monday, September 11th, 2006 Cartoon maker Gainax will produce four theatrical features in its iconic Evangelion series. The movies, the first in nearly a decade, are based on the 26-part TV series that launched the worldwide Evangelion boom in the 1990s, according to Variety.
The first, directed by Gainax vet Shinji Higuchi, will be released in July 2007, the second in January 2008 and the third and fourth on a double bill in June 2008. They'll be distributed by Klockworx.
The first three films will borrow some images from the TV show, but with new backgrounds and soundtracks. The stories of the third and final will be brand-new, in response to the many fans who were dissatisfied with the ending of the two Evangelion films directed by Hideaki Anno and released in 1997.
All four will incorporate far more 3-D animation technology than the original features and series.
The Evangelion series, about teenagers who pilot huge robot warriors against invading aliens while struggling with the issues of adolescence, began as a cult hit on Japanese TV.
