In 2019 the film was scheduled for a June 27, 2020 release date but received two delays due to concerns over the COVID-19 pandemic, first scheduled for a January 23, 2021 release, before being released on March 8, 2021.
That's how we arrived at Evangelion: 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone, a film that mostly retreads the ground of the first six episodes of the anime series (following Shinji Ikari, a teen piloting Evangelion Unit-01 against the alien creatures known as angels) and was clearly made with a much higher budget, allowing for ...Aug 13, 2021
Evangelion: 1.0 was planned to be the first installment of a three-part remake of Neon Genesis Evangelion with about one hundred fifty new cuts; during the production, however, the staff could not reuse the original drawings from the series and had to begin production from scratch.
