User blog comment:Manuel de la Fuente/Why Levi is not in the live-action movies? Screenwriter finally answers/@comment-24930713-20150723162728/@comment-5774380-20150723184006

Hahahaha, I was thinking the same things. I guess the "problem" with the name could have been solved easily with something like...

Eren: So, what's your name? Levi: I'm Levi. Eren: Levi? That sounds like a foreign name. Are you foreign? Levi: Aren't you? Nobody knows their true origin within these Walls. Eren: Hmm, that's ri... (Levi walks leaving Eren talking to himself)

But at the end I think they actually included Levi in the movie, just with a different name as they have planned at some point: Shikishima. They are practically the same thing... except Shikishima is tall, but Armin has black hair, so...

And seeing the bright side, if the movie doesn't please the fans, at least they can say "thanks God Levi was not there".