James Cameron still intends to make Battle Angel

While James Cameron is moving forward with his sequels to Avatar, many are wondering about his commitment to a live-action adaptation of Battle Angel Alita. Well, Collider had a chance to chat with Cameron about the film, and mentioned that he still intends to direct the film. “I’m obviously going to be pretty busy for the next five years [with Avatar 2 and 3]. And so I had to consider, do I hand this project off to another director? And then I thought, ‘No, I love it too much.’”, he said. That sounds good, but we won’t expect to see the film until after the Avatar sequels done. A release date for Avatar 3 was recently set for December of 2015, and we likely won’t see this film for a few years after that.

While there isn’t an idea of when the film will get made, Cameron did spill some details on what we could expect to see in the film.  ”It’s such a rich world. What I’m going to do is take the spine story and use elements from the first four books. So, the Motorball from books three and four, and parts of the story of one and two will all be in the movie,” he said. Of course, this could all change down the road when the film starts moving forward. Cameron has also mentioned in past interviews that he intends to use the same technology from Avatar in this adaptation. And given Cameron’s current record of pushing technology with his films, we can expect to see Battle Angel exceed Avatar in the technological area.

Matt Keith

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