First Look: James Cameron’s And Robert Rodriguez’s ALITA: BATTLE ANGEL

Visionary filmmakers James Cameron (AVATAR) and Robert Rodriguez (SIN CITY) create a groundbreaking new heroine in ALITA: BATTLE ANGEL, an action-packed story of hope, love and empowerment.

20th Century Fox has debuted an amazing first trailer for ALITA: BATTLE ANGEL starring Rosa Salazar, Christoph Waltz, Jennifer Connelly, Mahershala Ali, Ed Skrein, Jackie Earle Haley and Keean Johnson.

An ambitious film from the studio, ALITA: BATTLE ANGEL will be in theaters everywhere on July 20, 2018 in 3D & IMAX.

In May 2006, Variety reported that Cameron had spent the past ten months developing technology to produce the film and it looks like he suceeded with the melding of live action and a CGI rendered character. From this first look, the main character in ALITA: BATTLE ANGEL is reminiscent of 2001’s FINAL FANTASY: THE SPIRITS WITHIN.

Set several centuries in the future, the abandoned Alita (Rosa Salazar) is found in the scrapyard of Iron City by Ido (Christoph Waltz), a compassionate cyber-doctor who takes the unconscious cyborg Alita to his clinic. When Alita awakens she has no memory of who she is, nor does she have any recognition of the world she finds herself in. Everything is new to Alita, every experience a first. As she learns to navigate her new life and the treacherous streets of Iron City, Ido tries to shield Alita from her mysterious past while her street-smart new friend, Hugo (Keean Johnson), offers instead to help trigger her memories.

A growing affection develops between the two until deadly forces come after Alita and threaten her newfound relationships. It is then that Alita discovers she has extraordinary fighting abilities that could be used to save the friends and family she’s grown to love. Determined to uncover the truth behind her origin, Alita sets out on a journey that will lead her to take on the injustices of this dark, corrupt world, and discover that one young woman can change the world in which she lives.

Directed by Robert Rodriguez, with a screenplay by James Cameron and Laeta Kalogridis and Robert Rodriguez and based on the Graphic Novel (“Manga”) Series: “Gunnm” By Yukito Kishiro, the film produced by James Cameron and Jon Landau, who’ve worked previously together on TITANIC and AVATAR. They are producing the upcoming 2020 American epic science fiction film AVATAR 2.

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