What actors and actresses would you cast in the live-action adaptation of Neon Genesis Evangelion?
What actors and actresses would you cast in the live-action adaptation of Neon Genesis Evangelion?
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Idras Elba
Tom Holland as Shinji might work
No whitewashing allowed
good call. which role though? which character did you picture him as?
Unbelievably stupid ideas
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I'm gonna need the sauce for this, OP.
>That impossible hip:waist:gap ratio
Holy shit
>asuka can only be degraded to the level of a whore
pitiful
I recreated the OP from source with vastly improved quality
It's from the most popular Asuka doujin, just google "asuka beast doujin".
Isn't it great
Just because we think Asuka is hot doesn't we don't appreciate her as a character on a deeper level. At least she's more than some incel waifufag's (that's you) idealized, submissive, blank-slate fantasy (that's Rei).
That slutty cosplayer who looks just like her. Post her pics.
Di Caprio's ex gf
18 year old Asian literal whos that look 14
Based
Yea Forums has checksum checks for most of her copyrighted pictures. I'm not gonna risk it
Cringe
You know it in your heart
Bar Rafaeli is like 38. Asuka is 14 and Evangelion fundamentally doesn't work as a story unless Shinji and Asuka are teenagers.
why is that
Literally just edit the picture
It's more complicated than that and I can't say more.
sneed
Good doujin
None. Because there is literally no way a live action eva could possibly work.
The only people who would be interested are going to be turned off by the mere existence of it. Ghost in the Shell tanked, Death Note was a mess, Alita only did modestly well, that Akira movie is looking worse by the day. It's a horrible idea. dont do it senpai.
It's kind of shocking that it's the only one that good.
Lillis
NGE has a bigger and more loyal fan base than GotS or Death Note. On top of that, GotS and Death Note failed because they didn't look good (and weren't). If Evangelion were adapted well, it's compelling enough to succeed on its own merits without having to rely on anime fans.
All of Tengu's doujins are great though
As Asuka, they're both niggers anyway
>NGE
>Bigger fanbase
Outside of Japan, no.
They're the next best, but they're nowhere near as good as the OP one. I'm just surprised there isn't an ocean's worth of good Asuka porn considering how popular she is. There's a lot, but not as much as I'd expect and almost all of it is just fucking trash
I don't feel like that's true, but I bet we could find out with Google Trends or something.
CUTE
Leslie Jones as Asuka
There's lots of dojins, but they'll never be good enough considering their art is so different from the original they're basing it from.
I understand maybe some don't like copying other people's art styles or they simply can't copy it good enough, but because of that, it is hard to appreciate them.
>If Evangelion were adapted well, it's compelling enough to succeed on its own merits without having to rely on anime fans.
Other reasons it wouldn't work.
>Its a Japanese story telling Japanese themes to a japanese audience
that may resonate with a cult audience but wouldn't work with a blockbuster crowd. Especially a global one where a movie has to have as broad an appeal as possible to make its money back.
>Deep relevant themes and big budget Sci-Fi blockbuster dont really go together anymore.
The last few movies that tried to have it both ways bombed. No way a studio would put this much money into live action film series.
>Most of the cast in the series in 14 and highly sexualized.
You either have to age them up, or downplay the sex appeal in the source material. Do the latter and you lose the whole point of Eva, that these kids are literal child soldiers. Downplay the sex appeal, you lose a lot of the Freudian themes. Do you honestly think a studio would fund a movie with a 30 year old trying to seduce a 14 year old child? Fuck no. You're goddamn crazy if you think that would even be considered.
>Whitewashing.
Look. I'm not a social justice retard. But with the exception of Asuka. Do you honestly think Hollywood would back a movie with an all Japanese/Asian cast? Do you think the liberal asian outrage brigade wouldn't be smearing the studio and cast as racist bigots for 'taking roles away from Asians'? Look, I can give it a pass with the Ghost In The Shell movie because she uploaded her mind into a robot that can look however she wants it to look. But that excuse doesn't fly with evangelion
>Story Compression.
Much like video game movies and other live action anime films. You have to compress dozens of volumes/episodes of a series into a single movie. It almost never works. Last Airbender failed for that reason, You can't compress 24 episodes of an entire series into a single movie and not have it be anything but utter shite.
Just stop. It's not funny anymore.
This picture really tells you he's a man. Honestly just looks like a teenage russian boy, which he is.
These slavs get all gay from being poverty-molested by drunks
Dont even joke about that. You KNOW they would do it if they knew they could get away with it.
I wonder if you ever realized that Asuka is just Shinji in a wig.
the only rational choice
Does he still habe a beenis? who was red hair?
>here's your Asuka
did she cum from sneezing?
I masturbated to that doujin like 100 times some years ago
She would punch you the fuck out while Shinji wouldn't punch anyone, he's a total puss.
>It's a Japanese story telling Japanese themes to a Japanese audience
All I can imagine you're referring to is Shinji being a deconstruction of macho mecha anime protagonists. Guess what: I don't live in Japan and have never seen any other mecha shows and the story and Shinji's character and struggles resonated with me. The context of it being a deconstruction isn't necessary for it to work - but if you're bent on viewing it through that lens, you could look at Shinji more broadly being a deconstruction of action heros in movies.
>Deep relevant themes and big budget Sci-Fi blockbuster don't really go together anymore
The anime already successfully mixed action with themes/drama. You're overrating how difficult it would be to write an "exciting action movie" while retaining Eva's thematic core.
>The last few movies that tried to have it both ways bombed
What specific movies are you referring to?
>Most of the cast in the series is 14 and highly sexualized
The only aspect of Evangelion that's inappropriately sexualized that wouldn't fly in a blockbuster are the plugsuits. You could make them less sexual. Alternately, you could age the characters up to 17 and the story would still work. The "point" of Eva isn't that they're child soldiers. The "point" is growing up and finding the bravery to connect with other people.
Shoot yourself alicefag
Cringe, it's not funny anymore
So say we all
Akwafina as Rey
Would you?
I missed a few of your last points, they were off the bottom of my screen.
>Whitewashing
Tricky question. I don't know.
>Story compression.
The mistake the Rebuilds made was trying to adapt individual episodes into a movie structure. The entire story of Eva has to be completely redesigned if it's going to work as a movie. It could be a trilogy, with the Ramiel battle ending the first movie (a lot like 1.11).
I would wear the suit, yes. It's kinda exciting to wear something like that.
your whole post is retarded
i bet you like tik tok whores
Of course I would. He is best girl.
Asuka
Asuka = sassy
Leslie = sassy
I see no problem with this
Kaworu
>The entire story of Eva has to be completely redesigned if it's going to work as a movie.
A live action TV show would be a better option in my opinion.
Obviously
Oof, this but unironically
At that point, you're getting into "why even bother? Just watch the anime" territory.
Faye Reagan
But who would be its intended audience?
You lose a lot of the point of it if you don't have the kids being actual kids. But good luck getting anyone to fund this as aimed at kids. And good luck getting any adults to watch a bunch of kids go through puberty. Even with giant "robots."
Is this the right girl?
He meant Shiro. Hey janny retards, this is a picture she publicly released. Don't ban me.
No network is willing to pay for that kinda shit unless its HBO or something.
>some russian whore
Yeah, no.
gendo
Netflix has the rights and is getting ready to release the anime with the redub...
The only anime you could even really adapt to live action and not suck at it is Berserk.
Change my mind.
She should show some butt if she wants me to pay for her daki.
Wew
Unironically good, but and are too old even if they'd have been good when they were younger
hot
as long as they cast a cute 14 year old redhead, nothing can't go wrong
>buff faggot with a big sword
There's already movies like that. Watch Beowulf.
Blame would be a much better kino.
>All I can imagine you're referring to is Shinji being a deconstruction of macho mecha anime protagonists.
Also the fact the whole show was meant to be a deconstruction of mecha as a genre (a genre which doesn't exist in movies or shows in America), of anime tropes common to the era (and which are still common in anime to this day),
>You're overrating how difficult it would be to write an "exciting action movie" while retaining Eva's thematic core.
Maybe it's because (with the exception of Disney) Hollywood has proven time and time again that they cannot handle IPs well. How many shitty reboots, adaptations, sequelboots, and prequels do we have to suffer through to get one good movie? A lot. I have no faith whatsoever that they wouldn't fuck up Evangelion the way they fucked up Dragonball, Death Note, X-Men, or the DC movies.
Odds are in the favor of a live action movie with Eva bombing like a turd in a toilet.
>What specific movies are you referring to?
Pick a DC movie, or Captain Marvel, or pretty much any blockbuster that isn't a marvel movie made since the dark knight. They're all dumb as a brick, and those who try to be more than just another blockbuster by examining big themes or ideas either suck or dont do the themes they claim to be about justice. The only movie that has worked meshing big relevant ideas and big action together. Is Black Panther, and that movie only got produced due to the 'safety net' of the rest of the MCU being there to support it if it did miss the mark.
>Alternately, you could age the characters up to 17 and the story would still work.
No it wouldn't. Not really. a 17 year old is pretty much an adult. On top of that, a 14 year old whining about how unfair the world is thats understandable. A 17 year old whining about will just be seen as an immature annoying bitch by audiences.
Literally anything can be adapted if you put it in the hands of someone competent. Hell, Lovecraft *can* be properly adapted even though the entire schtick of his stories is that you can't physically see the horrors of his stories.
If you get a daki of her please send it to me
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Kat Mac!
old skank
misato
Isabella Moner
fpbp
yeah, I though that. it’s hard finding some young actors that fit the characters.
>If you get a daki of her please send it to me
I can't guarantee the cum stains will be still wet and fresh when it arrives.
Monster as a small budget thriller film would do well.
I like her, but she would have been good 8 or 9 years ago
Based, moner boner would be great
Every character. Like how Eddie Murphy did norbit
She's more blonde than redhead now, but idk..one of her biggest claims to fame is Freeform show, those tend to be really bad and more forced drama filled than a CW show.
Have sex
>The only anime you could even really adapt to live action and not suck at it is Berserk.
You could also avoid the whitewashing controversy that anime live action movies deal with because it's set in a fictional medieval Europe. Well except for Casca. But who even knows what ethnicity she's supposed to be.
This so much. Also..AAAAAAAAAHHHH
kek, that's fine
Cast an Asian for Casca and wait for the salt.
Cast a white dude as Guts and you'll probably get the stanard whitewashing nonsense.
Now cast a nignog as Griffith and see how well that goes.
He can tuck it well.
what did anno mean by this?
>Cast an Asian for Casca and wait for the salt.
She's like a cross between a black woman and a southeast Asian. So I could actually see that working. Provided she's of a dark complexion, like an Indian or a Vietnamese woman.
don't stop believing user also checked
He wishes he was a little girl.
My only problem with adaptding EVA for live action, even if you casted characters with actors who're not said characters ethnicity, change names, ect. Is that godforsaken Shinji/Asuka relationship, they're either going to water it down to make them this uwu so cute couple or fucking force it full of retarded drama.
Even in aging up characters this would happen.
as for shenji, I honestly think the best choice is just some random hapa from /pol/. they have the look down, and also embody shenjis nuclear level autism.
Rei best girl.
isn't he literally schizophrenic? I just feel bad for the fellow
Only for weaklings.
Shinji? No, he's not Schizo. Just deeply depressed and thrust into a shitty situation.
Also possibly bi-curious.
Misato would be my pick. Asuka is too bitchy and Rei is soulless.
Reifags BTFO. Misato a best.
>Alita only did modestly well
Alita flopped.
>liking that penguin-fucking drunk
It has already been done.
a drunken pedo mommy gf sounds based
Misato would be my pick if she was Asuka's age.
>caring at all what a hack like Anno thinks
>implying Anno is ever wrong
Oy vey? It made literally twice more than it was predicted to make. It broke even with a couple million on top of that, and then there's the home media sales which are probably gonna turn it into a very successful movie.
Best girl coming through
She would look better with twintails. Like my waifu.
yeah, I think he has some mental problems. the whole situation was quite sad.
>the female romance novels for research purposes
actually pretty cool
Ah, yes. Here's your strong, independent woman, gaijin.
Quiet Rei
I had no idea Anno was so BASED
Misato
weak
I'm not seeing the issue, Shinji likes it
cunny in all roles
gendo looks a westerner lol, not a jap
Is this the right one?
Good choice
good choice
You do realize Anno is playing you like a damn fiddle, right? Being a strong person alone, was Asuka's false preconception. Just like Shinji's was that getting in the robot would begin healing his relationship with his father. The entire Evangelion underlying message was about how people can be driven to loneliness and depression by obstinantly following the wrong goals in a vicious circle to indulge their fantasy other who they should be.
Even Anno doesn't like Asuka just because she's, supposedly, strong.
he's a jomon chad
That's why I love Anno.
People who like Asuka know that of course.
Its just that Asuka can show some actual agency in everyday life, while Rei is as passive as they come.
It's called Mukokoseki you uncultured swine.
Japanese draw people who look white who are ethnically japanese all the time. But theres no way that would work in live action. You would HAVE to cast a Japanese dude as Gendo.
I was trying to pick Asian actors. if I were hypothetically making the show, I’d like to avoid whitewashing controversy. also, I’m 99.9% sure he’s Japanese.
Watching the rebuilds this weekend, do they subvert weeb expectations or something?
Maybe you could get away with making Gendo white. But then Shinji would have to be half white.
way too old
Well they subverted any expectations of being good movies.
I am really looking forward to the fourth and final one.
Not because I expect it to be a good movie and wrap up the myriad plot threads that are still dangling or give us a satisfying conclusion. Anno doesn't work that way.
I just want to watch the anime fandom shit themselves inside out at whatever Anno manages to concoct.
333 DEFINITELY does. Though whether thats a good or bad thing relys entirely on the final movie to deliver.
>It broke even
Not even close.
>Japanese draw people who look white who are ethnically japanese all the time
>broo he looks like a european but in reality he´s japanese WHOAAAA XDDXDX
kys
This woman is ethnically japanese.
they change the coloration because anime artists have sameface syndrome
>I’m 99.9% sure he’s Japanese.
sure, like every anime character
fucking weebs i swear
Japs as a whole have sameface syndrome.
I'm just saying, In anime just because an anime character looks white doesn't mean they are white. I mean Jesus. Shinji Gendo and Yui are 100% pureblooded Japanese and somehow Yui and Shinji have chestnut hair and aryan blue eyes. If they were cast in live action you'd have to get an Asian actor.
Edward Elric is from a fantasy version of Europe. You could cast him with a white actor. Same for Eren Yeager. You need to acknowledge the context of the show. Eva takes place in Japan. Everyone has Jap names. It only makes sense they'd be played In a live action movie by Japanese people!
kekked but also very rude
>If they were cast in live action you'd have to get an Asian actor.
You mean a black actor
4.0 will be the missing movie that was in the preview at the end of 2.0. You already saw the end of the story in 3.0.
Shinji doesn't have chestnut hair. He has the same dark brown hair and blue eyes Gendo has.
And Anno wanted Shinji to have blue eyes to represent innocence. Character designer and manga author, Yoshyuki Sadamoto wanted Shinji to have brown eyes to represent the everyman.
So anime Shinji has blue eyes, manga Shinji has brown.
Both are examples of creative liberties taken with the characters to not be exactly like reality.
Asuka is canonically German.
>also very rude
fuck off chink
>The Legend of Zelda borrows Irish mythology and is set in a fictitious Europe
>also has Japanese themes
can one say that they're Celtic hapas? they don't seem quite white or Asian imo
>Both are examples of creative liberties taken with the characters to not be exactly like reality.
To continue, take Misato. Do you really think she's supposed to have literally purple hair?
She's supposed to have plain black hair, but it's represented as purple to give her some visual flair in the animated medium.
Quarter japanese, quarter german, and half american apparently
She's also like 25% Japanese. But finding someone with that exact background is going to be a huge challenge.
Emilia as Asuka.
>turns into legitimate Eva thread
You fucking idiots. This was supposed to be an Asuka thread.
Actually from my experience, many of her fans are in denial about just how broken and dependent on Nerv she truly is. Once her one role in it as pilot comes to an end, she literally ceases to function.
Whilst Rei, while she starts off as passive as you say, eventually developed to the point of emancipation. Freed from her imposed role as pilot, and freed from the man she falsely thought she wanted a bond with. In my opinion Rei is much more proactive and not with her head in either the coulds or the abyss.
I assumed she was supposed to have black hair and the purple was Non-diegenetic (to use a film school term). That is it looks black to the characters in universe, but purple to the viewer.
Is there a twitter or blog where I can tell this boy I want to ruin and remodel his shithole?
here's your racially ambiguous qt bro
But where can we find someone like that who can also act?
>You already saw the end of the story in 3.0.
I will kick annos ass if that is the case. Give me closure or give me death !
>diegenetic
I think you mean "diegetic." But thanks, while it usually refers to audio, it fits for what I was trying to think of but was drawing a blank on.
Incidentally, Rei's blue hair isn't diegetic. She's an albino.
@shirogane_sama on ig
God I wish she was a boy
>You could cast him with a white actor. Same for Eren Yeager. You need to acknowledge the context of the show.
This is where I find the "b-but they're all supposed to be Japanese!" argument flawed. It's pretty clear that in shows like Attack on Titan they're all European. I mean, they explicitly state that Mikasa is the only Asian left and even she is only half Asian. And when you watch something like Legend of the Galactic Heroes you can't really deny that all the space nazis are white as fuck.
The LOGH novels flat out say that the upper echelons of the Empire were composed of whites of German heritage because Rudolf I was a colossal racist.
While the Free Planets Alliance was much more accepting of different races and ethnicities.
>straw man argument
I never said all anime characters are Japanese, brainlet. some are and some aren’t. edward is supposed to be a version of European, while ling is supposed to be a version of Chinese.
>God I wish she was a boy
I don't, I just don't care I would bring such ruination on her backdoor that even Satan would blush.
If you cast Shinji with a white actor, gotta make Yui and Gendo and Rei white given they're all related.
You can make Yui asian so that Rei can be asian.
Gendo will still have to be white.
So shinji would be a Hapa played by a white actor given Hollywood doesn't want to cast actual Asian actors.
Yes, and?
Cast Steven Seagal as Shinji.
Well it's not like democrats aren't already racist as shit towards asian people.
>the "Democrats are the racist ones" meme
OH NO NO NO NO NO
AHAHAHAHA
Given Asians have to perform much harder on entrance exams than white people. I'd say they are.
Hollywood is filled with democrats and will cast one hundred white guys before they cast one Asian dude. We couldn't even get an Asian as Light Yagami in a shitty live action Death Note. Aint no way in hell we're gonna get an Asian dude playing Shinji Ikari.
The people with the authority to decide what race a character will be cast with bases their decision on focus group testing, not "because they're Democrats". Democrat or Republican, their priority as executives is profits, and they believe that they can optimize profits by listening to focus groups. You know this.
Focus groups have ruined great movies. I'm not against changing things. I AM against focus groups.
Whitewashing aside. You'd need a new actor to play Shinji so people could get emotionally invested in him without just seeing Spider-Man in a cosmic horror mecha movie.
everyone is racist 2bh
the people that say they don't see color are full of shit
Sure, but Republicans are more racist than Democrats. Racism (and more generally xenophobia) is a shitty instinct and at least liberal people consciously try to stamp it out of themselves. Conservatives revel in hating brown people.
>inb4 "no they don't"
I would direct you to /pol/ for evidence.
If you have to cast a white kid as Shinji get that kid who played number 5 in Umbrella Academy. He could totally pull off Shinji as a broken person with a bit of a hidden sadist streak.
>Racism (and more generally xenophobia) is a shitty instinct and at least liberal people consciously try to stamp it out of themselves.
Yet they still wont make a blockbuster with an Asian lead.
>/pol/
>Republicans
Yeah, because like I said, executives prioritize the profits of the companies they lead over the political views, and the research they have done tells them casting white leads is more profitable than casting Asian leads. Most everyone in every profession does this.
I didn't say Republicans. I said conservatives. It's just semantics, though.
>Republicans are more racist than Democrats
>Conservatives revel in hating brown people
>I would direct you to /pol/ for evidence.
I agree it's semantics, but you did make the equivalence.
The real issue is liberals (leftists, progressives, whatever you wish to call them) are 100% hypocritical in calling others racist. At least the right are honest about their ingroup preference.
???
I see them posted all the time.
Why the hell do people think this could work as live action? Fucking Hollywood couldn't even adapt Deathnote or DragonBall Z. Even animated Evangelion barely got made.
If people are really fans of Japaense animation, why do they need anything else? No one needs live action Evangelion. It probrably would not work as live action and certainly not as a series of Hollywood films.
Anyone who thinks there should be an Evangelion live action movie is a moron. I remember back in high school in the 90s after seeing Eva it might be cool. I foolishly had faith in Hollywood back then.
Plus, what the hell is wrong with it just being an animated series. Maybe it works best, maybe only works, in that format. Not everything needs to be a Hollywood movie.
>If people are really fans of Japaense animation, why do they need anything else? No one needs live action Evangelion. It probrably would not work as live action and certainly not as a series of Hollywood films.
People feel their hobby would be 'legitimized' in the eyes of the 'normal' people who mocked them as kids for being fans of the property as a kid. Just like the MCU.
Why is there an evangelion weeb thread on Yea Forums
Evangelion > all Western media combined
Fuck you
Fuck America
>Why is there an evangelion weeb thread on Yea Forums
We watch anime on tv.
seething
>tfw asuka isn't real
>tfw no asuka gf
Maika Monroe could play Asuka I think but you’d have to start filming today before she gets any older
Why is american media so degenerate and childish
Dicaprio dumped that? what a fucking homo, he will die childless.
he only dates women under 25 for whatever reason
NGE and EOE is better than anything that Western animation has put out in 25 years
asuka for friend with benefits
misato for girlfriend
rei for wife
Is it weird that that frame is pretty much the only part of that doujin I've ever masturbated to? I once did it to the pic related frame, but God she looks so hot in that OP frame
Asuka: Christina Hendricks
Rei: Kat Dennings
Shinji: Henry Cavill
this guy as shinji
or goose himself
i could see that working.
>trendy uncharismatic actor #35095230952893
>capeshitter
Redditors can't think outside whats trending.
I haven't seen capeshit since Raimi's Spiderman, don't bully me
>LotGH
based
It's a toss up between her and MJ.
CGI Alita style.