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Battle Angel Alita movie




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Titanium13



Joined: 21 Feb 2010
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 21, 2010 1:09 pm Reply with quote
James Cameron is making the Battle Angel Alita movie. JAmes himself sait that his latest movie, Avatar, was just preperation for Alita, because he wanted to have the technologyto make it as awesome as possible. we can expect the movie to be out in 2011.

what are your thoughts about this?
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timesteel



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PostPosted: Sun Feb 21, 2010 4:30 pm Reply with quote
well since its planned after the second avatar movie it might not be until 2012 or really late 2011
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Paploo



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PostPosted: Sun Feb 21, 2010 4:37 pm Reply with quote
He's had it in development since the 90's, around the time after Titanic, so it's mostly nice that he's actually getting around to making it [having made Terminator spinoffs and Avatar in the meantime]. I think the wait will work to the films benefit though, as now the entire series has been published in english as a recent interview with him elaborated, allowing him to draw upon a larger range of material then when they first opted it, and a few volumes of manga and the OVA were out [the movie is part of why the OVA's DVD hadn't been available for awhile- ADV's distribution rights were affected by Cameron's option, though they later found a loophole (as they still had the rights to it) and sold another batch of the discs online via their webstore and RightStuf.]
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sk1199



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PostPosted: Sun Feb 21, 2010 6:43 pm Reply with quote
You should have just read this animenewsnetwork.com/news/2010-02-18/producer/battle-angel-film-planned-after-avatar-2. It's from just this past Thursday.
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ikillchicken



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PostPosted: Mon Feb 22, 2010 12:23 am Reply with quote
Titanium13 wrote:
JAmes himself sait that his latest movie, Avatar, was just preperation for Alita, because he wanted to have the technologyto make it as awesome as possible.


Uh...no. I don't know what comment you're referring to because you haven't provided a link. However, I feel quite confident in saying that Avatar was not 'just preparation'. It is true that Cameron has said that he needed the Avatar technology to make Battle Angel the way he wanted to. However, it was by no means developed primarily with BA in mind. Quite the opposite. Avatar is something he's wanted to make for ages. It's Cameron's baby. Regardless of one's opinion of it, it was definitely the single biggest factor in him developing the technology.
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The Xenos



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PostPosted: Fri Feb 26, 2010 2:08 am Reply with quote
I've been hearing news of this since before I read the manga back in the early 00s. So I'm not holding my breath. It gets done when it gets done... if it gets done. I hoped he'd follow Avatar with Alita instead of a sequel, but seems like pressure is on for a direct sequel. Too bad, I'm really not interested in Cameron's pretty derivative Avatar world. I'd much rather finally get Alita.
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