I finished reading the series for the eighth time now.

Question:
How come someone has not made this into a live-action or an anime movie or TV series???

>How come someone has not made this into a live-action or an anime
>movie or TV series???

It's a long story that involves the word "unauthorized" a lot.

--G.
(was this a rhetorical question?)
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This was not a rhetorical question. In fact all of the people that I have come to know that have seen NGE loved the change. If anything, it would be nice to ask for permission to make it into a live-action movie. (I know, I know, I'm partially an otaku and it probibly won't get done) I'd be willing to try, hell, I'd even be willing to have a walk-on part in 1.8, being a geology student and all.

I'd imagine that something like a radio-style reading of these with different voice actors would push you guys over-the-top with your loyal fans.

>This was not a rhetorical question.

Well, then here's the non-rhetorical answer: Undertaking a project like an actual NXE movie covertly would be all but impossible; launching it overtly, as you suggest, by going to the rights-holders up front and asking them what they think would be suicidal. Like dressing up in a suit of raw steaks and climbing into the lion enclosure at the zoo.

See, things like NXE are only permitted to survive because they remain below the radar of the people who actually own the intellectual property being used. Stick your head up, make a noise, do something so overt that those people can no longer plausibly deny that they're aware of your activities, and you will be crushed like a bug.

Personally, I don't want to be crushed like a bug. I'm already spending a decent chunk of time these days wondering whether I have, in fact, permanently sabotaged any career I might have had as a professional writer by spending the last 18 years(!) building a very large time bomb under my bed. If I were to get published now and, through some strange vagary of fate, happen to hit it big, some researcher would be bound to come across all this lot - well, you could hardly miss it, could you? - and then I'd have some quite awkward questions to answer.

(Also, motion pictures cost a bloody fortune, which I don't happen to have.)

--G.
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>Personally, I don't want to be crushed like a bug. I'm already
>spending a decent chunk of time these days wondering whether I have,
>in fact, permanently sabotaged any career I might have had as a
>professional writer by spending the last 18 years(!) building a very
>large time bomb under my bed. If I were to get published now and,
>through some strange vagary of fate, happen to hit it big, some
>researcher would be bound to come across all this lot - well, you
>could hardly miss it, could you? - and then I'd have some quite
>awkward questions to answer.
>
No disagreement offered on your position or motivations, b