An updated version of the final Evangelion film hits Amazon Prime next month
Evangelion: 3.0+1.01 Thrice Upon A Time, the fourth and final Evangelion movie, will finally come to America
Film News Tim Kash
Initially released in Japan in March of this year, the fourth and final film in the Rebuild Of Evangelion series will make its way stateside next month. *Takes massive breath* Evangelion: 3.0+1.01 Thrice Upon A Time hits Amazon Prime on August 13. Speaking via video chat at Comic-Con@Home, Evangelion creator Hideaki Anno explained how the team updated and revised the film for its global release.
“Creation does not have an end,” said Hideaki Anno. “Our staff is determined to work on projects as long as there is time. So we want to maintain the quality and improve it if time allows us.”
“We complete our work because there is a time limit, or deadline,” he continued. “We stop working because of a deadline. If we have more time after the deadline, we’ll all be excited and eager to upgrade it. We wanted to show our audience the best version of our work, and since we had more time, the staff took the initiative to revise the film. This does not largely affect the content of the story itself. We upgrade it technically, so it might not be something that everyone will notice. Even so, we still want to improve the technical quality in detail.”
The first Evangelion movie premiered in 2007 when Anno said he and his team came up with the ending. “This was planned from the beginning, and although the details, or the way of depiction have changed the basic points are the same,” he explained. This is the fourth film in the series. The others include: 2007’s Evangelion: 1.11 You Are (Not) Alone, 2009’s Evangelion: 2.22 You Can (Not) Advance, and 2012’s Evangelion: 3.33 You Can (Not) Redo.
Anno gave fans a hint as to what he would be doing after Evangelion. He emphasized that he would be focusing on live-action movies next. “It took 16 years to finally end the series. I’m really relieved. When I realized, I had turned 60. Now that I’ve turned 61 this year, from now on, I plan on making some new live-action movies instead of Eva. For animation, it’d be great if I have a chance to do it again after I take some live-action shots.”
Evangelion: 3.0 + 1.01 Thrice Upon A Time and 3 previous Evangelion films will be available on Amazon Prime on August 13. Check out some new footage of the film here:
As The A.V. Club’s Sam Barsanti noted earlier this month, this is not the end of Evangelion. He writes: “Of course, true NERV heads know that The End Of Evangelion isn’t really the end of Evangelion, as that’s been playing out in series creator Hideaki Anno’s Rebuild Of Evangelion movie series, which—at the risk of saying too much—is a… remake of the original series.” Still, the movie was a massive hit in Japan, and fans worldwide have been waiting, like, forever for it, so let’s not ruin it.
Watch Hideaki Anno’s full Comic-Con@Home interview and hear host Tim Kash say “Evangelion: 3.0 + 1.01 Thrice Upon A Time” over and over below.
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Is this going to be dubbed over here? I hate to ask that, but I thought the recent Netflix release did a pretty good job at re-dubbing it. I also hate subtitles, but I’m excited to finally check out this version of the series without having to use a weird website.
It’s going to be dubbed.But no one knows if it’ll be the cast from the other films, the cast from the Netflix rerun, or an entirely new cast separate from either.
Congratulations!
I am geeked.
I am geeked.
Hi, your last paragraph doesn’t make any sense because you didn’t capitalize and italicize the full title, The End of Evangelion. Evangelion: 3.0 + 1.01 Thrice Upon A Time IS the Rebuild of Evangelion.
So all four movies are dropping on the same day? Be nice if we got the first three a week or two earlier.
Agreed. I did recently do a complete rewatch with the Netflix dub (I had already watched it subtitled 15 years back, and–gack almost 25 years back watched taped off Japanese tv episodes unsubtitled) and so am primed for this, but they could easily build anticipation for the release that way.
I’m sure if Amazon could they would. Personally, I’m just excited to be getting the new one at all. I’ll be busting out my discs of the old films in anticipation instead.
Glad to see Evangelion learned from the Kingdom Hearts school of thought regarding sequel numbering. Can’t wait for Evangelion ReReBuild (420+69²) / 3.14: The Past (Can’t) Change [Sort of (But Not Really)] coming Summer 2030.
Once upon a time last year, I was going to fly to Japan to see this movie on the big screen there but then something happened …
Annoying that the films aren’t coming to Netflix like the original show and EoE.Guess I’m borrowing someone’s Prime account.
The rights to the Rebuilds have been super weird for North American releases. It almost feels like another Expanse thing here, where Bezos is showing himself to be a big weeb.
The rights to Eva properties have always been like this in the US. Studio Gainax, and now Anno’s Khara, has a tendency to strike up a bidding war and has no sense of loyalty. (They don’t need to be loyal, if we’re being honest.) Back in the day the TV series was released by ADV, then the films by Manga Entertainment. These new films were being released by Funimation, then the TV show and original film rights were picked up by Netflix — which Funimation publicly complained about. Now that Amazon has the Rebuild films, I’m really curious about how Funimation feels about things. Sony money wasn’t enough to buy the new film’s rights and re-up for the old films, I guess.
Thanks for the explainer.Still, it’s a shame that specifically Amazon got them. Were it anyone else, they’d probably be on Netflix in the UK…
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That final paragraph (and probably most of this article) is sure as Hell gonna confuse anyone who doesn’t really know the basic history of the show, the movie following the show, and this new series of movies. (And, I know, my post won’t really clear things up either).