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
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.