Evangelion movie? Eh….OMG WETA?!?!

The fanboy in me leaped with joy last night as I stared at my torrent for the first episode of Ah! My Goddess Season 2. Today, the fanboy in me cried. Not the bad kind. It was probably the best movie related news I had heard since Bungie announced that Peter Jackson would be Executive Producer for the Halo movie. The story?

I was meandering along the internets out of shear boredom, and eventually ran into Anime News Network's writeup of the New York ComicCon last month. Out of curiosity I looked at the story for A.D.V.'s panel. At the bottom, there was a blurb about the live action Evangelion movie that A.D.V. was planing, how the director had yet to be chosen, the runner of the panel visiting WETA about production, and Emma Watson (Hermione in the Harry Potter movies) being ruled out to play Auska because she is too old. I suddenly felt something was off…and I re-read the paragraph. WETA. Evangelion movie. That's when the tears of joy started. I quickly realized that the man could have been just visiting WETA to see if they would do it, and I scoured the internet for more clues, finally coming to a stop on WETA Workshop's own website. And the Evangelion movie was listed. The crying continued. When I first heard that A.D.V. was planning a live action Evangelion movie, I immediately stated that A) it would suck terribly, and B) I would watch it anyway. After today, I've decided that A is wrong. WETA FTW. Take a looksy at their concept art, especially the ones for the Eva hangar. Commence fanboy drooling and eager anticipation…NOW.

Sidenote: why the hell isn't the Halo movie listed at all? It's already been confirmed, and pre-production has started. Hell, filming is supposed to start soon! Not even WETA Digital has it listed…