Films
Gainax launched a project to create a movie ending for the series in 1997. The company first released Death and Rebirth on March 15, which consisted of a highly condensed character-based recap and re-edit of the episodes 1-24 (Death) and the first half of the new ending (Rebirth, which was originally intended to be the full ending, but couldn't be finished due to budget and time constraints).
The project to complete the final episodes (retelling episodes 25 and 26 of the series) was completed later in 1997 and released on July 19 as The End of Evangelion. A movie compilation of a reedited version of Death (known as Death(true)2) and The End of Evangelion, Revival of Evangelion, was released on March 8, 1998.
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