Neon Genesis Evangelion creator Hideaki Anno may be best known for his almost 40 years of work in anime, but the director says he wants to tackle more live-action projects before he returns to the world of animation.
According to IGN, Anno revealed in a Comic-Con@Home panel that his next projects will most likely be live-action. "Making a live-action video is totally different from animation," Anno said. "Because I can do a lot of things that I can't do with animation, that's why I'm really looking forward to it. I want to do things that are only possible in live-action." Anno is currently promoting the international release of Evangelion 3.0+1.01: Thrice Upon A Time, the grand finale to the Evangelion series that he's been working on since 1995. The highly anticipated anime movie will be released exclusively on Amazon Prime Video on Aug. 13.
After getting his start as an animator on Super Dimension Fortress Macross and Hayao Miyazaki's Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, Hideaki Anno became one of the founding members of the animation studio Gainax, where he directed anime such as Gunbuster and Nadia: Secret of Blue Water before moving on to his most famous work, Neon Genesis Evangelion, which is widely considered to be one of the most influential anime series of all time. Anno directed his first live-action film, the experimental Love & Pop in 1998, and has directed multiple live-action movies since, including the 2016's critically lauded Shin Godzilla, which was a reboot of Toho's iconic kaiju franchise.
Anno's next announced work is another live-action reboot of a classic Japanese franchise: the Evangelion creator has signed on to direct a new movie based on Toei's long-running tokusatsu action series Kamen Rider. Titled Shin Kamen Rider, the movie is scheduled to premiere in Japan sometime in 2023.
Source: IGN
