
The desire to fight the continuing trend of stagnation in anime. The desire to connect today's exhausted Japanese animation to the future. The desire to share, with an audience, the embodiment of image, the diversity of expressions, and the detailed portrayal of emotions that animation offers. The desire to portray my sincere feelings on film. Many different desires are motivating us to create the new "Evangelion" film.

The english name of the movie series was Rebuild of Evangelion (Tentative name), which would be later dropped in favor of Evangelion: 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone and Evangelion: 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance. On Februseries creator Hideaki Anno released an official statement in a form of a movie poster that was shown in 50 cinemas in Japan, providing an explanation for his motivations in creating a new version of the franchise, and stating that the release date for the first film in Japanese theaters was September 1, 2007.
