At the ADV Films panel at Metro­con 2004, David Williams said the sparse­ness of news was because all infor­ma­tion released on the project was agreed to be approved by all three par­ties involved: Gainax, WETA, and ADV. He did say the movie is mov­ing ahead fine. They are cur­rently work­ing on script treat­ments and are down to a short­list of direc­tors. In a sep­a­rate inter­view, Williams said that there has been no deci­sion made yet as to whether the film will encom­pass the entire story of Evan­ge­lion or just the beginning.

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