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What’s in Animé Insider #12? January 26th, 2004

The images will be made avail­able to you soon! But before then, here is a quick run down of all the won­der­ful fea­tures to do with the eva movie in the lat­est issue of Animé insider.

The pro­duc­tion images. Yes, all NEW images as promised.
Image 01: This is a panoramic view of NERV’s Evan­ge­lion Unit Hangar Bay, much like the image already seen, it shows Unit 1 with what looks like a partly dis­fig­ured horn. In the dis­tance is another tank con­tain­ing an unknown object that does not look like an eva unit. The image is also scat­tered with NERV employ­ees going about their daily jobs.
Image 02: Another shot of Unit 0, it looks sim­i­lar to the animé ver­sion although aspects of it have been mod­i­fied to look more bio­me­chan­i­cal (e.g. mus­cu­lar, ske­li­tal).
Image 03: Here is our first shot of Rei Ayanami. The image shows her plug­suit; Eva is writ­ten on the chest plate and var­i­ous small details have been changed from the animé ver­sion. We can also see Rei’s face and her appear­ance is of an Asian nature.

As for the inter­view with Exec­u­tive pro­ducer Matthew Green­field, here are the details we now know:
The script, which Green­field took time out of his hon­ey­moon to work with, is being shown around to var­i­ous par­ties in order to bring more staff and crew into the project — even though the script is a very first draft and will most likely change dras­ti­cally (depend­ing on the direc­tor).
The story will be self-contained and if suc­cess­ful, will make way for sequels. Green­field used Matrix Reloaded as an exam­ple of what he is try­ing to avoid cre­at­ing. As for cur­rent con­cept art pro­duc­tion, Weta have 12 artists going at it. This movie could take for­ever to pro­duce and we may not get to see it until 2010. But let’s hope not.

Note: Animé Insider #12 now out on Newsstands.