Avatar or Battle Angel Alita 2.
Jon Landau, Film producer and partner James Cameron on his films, recently returned on future projects in the multi-Oscar-winning director. For between suite AvatarAnnounced there few, and the film adaptation of the manga GunnmIt will have choose …
Gunnm
It all starts a few years earlier, in 2005 to be exact. The director Guillermo Del Toro (Hellboy, The labyrinthe Pan) Has a excellent manga name Battle Angel Alita – Better known under the name Gunnm – attn Cameron and mortal gold LandauPersuaded that there is substance in this work for a film Cameron. Convinced, the latter decided to adapt the film manga Yukito Kishiro.
But Cameron has a second project in mind, he wrote for some time already. As product is then chosen AvatarWith the success that it known. But now thatAvatar a card in rooms, what about Battle Angel Alita ?
AvatarLaeta KalogridisThe writer Shutter Island (the last Scorcese) And Ghost in The Shell, Is then engaged to do the script. At that time, Cameron buy mortal gold and Landau not experiencing Gunnm that anime version, the only OVA, and a volume manga. Laeta they will reveal the existence of 9 volumes, but especially a universe as rich and vast and complex. It will therefore take time to make Gunnm a film …
Verdict: Cameron and Landau decide that sequelae ofAvatar will tour first.
But fans of Gally be reassured. The project Gunnm indeed advance, and it is Cameron himself says, in a interview MTVIn the language of Shakespeare :
Avatar”New imaging techniques Digital used for Avatar will facilitate production Battle Angel Alita ” precise Cameron. “Mixing CG with 3D motion is not easy and we could learn a lot about Avatar, which me reinforces the fact of having made first. ”
In this interview from December Last, the director also says he already has a script which is satisfied and his team worked for a year on the future design of the film.
Gunnm
Landau explains For its part, the necessity of this long work on the issues: “We we really wanted to take our time to develop a story in the form of an arc that includes the entire universe of the series. Gunnm raises many cheap mortal gold questions: what does it mean to be human? does it have a heart for humans, or just a spirit? It is a great adventure …”
Gally en OAV
Finally, on the title of the film, the rumor was far from a simple Battle Angel. But Landau just the reverse title and explains with a smile that Cameron not product films beginning with “T” or an “A”: Avatar, Titanic, Terminator, Abyss, True Lies. The film therefore be called Alita: Battle Angel. Private Joke or not … Time will tell!