Alita Battle Angel movie: Robert Rodriguez will now direct with James Cameron producing.
Alita Battle Angel movie
Robert Rodriguez is set to direct an Alita Battle Angel movie for 20th Century Fox and producer James Cameron, so reports Deadline. The film, based on the Manga series has long been in development at the studio with Cameron set to direct, though now he will step back and just produce, along with Jon Landau under their Lightstorm Entertainment production company.
The film will be set n the 26th century, and the Alita Battle Angel will ‘tell the story of Alita, an amnesiac female cyborg who is rescued from a scrapyard by a doctor. The rebuilt Alita, remembering only her training in a deadly martial art, becomes a hunter-warrior, tracking down and eliminating vicious criminals. Within the context of an epic action-adventure, the film will explore a young woman’s journey of self-discovery and finding love.’
Robert Rodriguez will direct an Alita Battle Angel movie
“Robert and I have been looking for a film to do together for years,” Cameron said. “So I was pumped when he said he wanted to do Battle Angel. He’s very collaborative and we’re already like two kids building a go-kart, just having fun riffing creatively and technically. This project is near and dear to me, and there’s nobody I trust more than Robert, with his technical virtuosity and rebel style, to take over the directing reins. We’re looking forward to learning a lot from each other while we make a kick-ass epic.”
“Battle Angel is an incredibly rich and vibrant epic in the tradition of Jim Cameron’s spectacular, character-driven films,” Rodriguez added. “Getting to work from Jim’s terrific and visionary script while learning the cutting edge techniques he’s pioneered is a master class in filmmaking. It’s an honor to explore the world of Alita along with Jim and Jon, whose films have impacted me for decades.”
Cameron,who has been developing the Alita Battle Angel movie for over ten years, will concentrate his directing efforts on the Avatar sequels, the first of which is due in 2017.
Robert Rodriguez is the man behind Troublemaker Studios, and has directed the dusty Mexican trilogy in El Mariachi, Desperado, and Once Upon a Time in Mexico, and the Spy Kids movies.
