This one arrived this weekend rather unexpectedly, must admit I quite forgot it finished with production, but the first trailer has been released for
ALITA: BATTLE ANGEL last night. The big screen adaptation of the popular manga
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Rosa Salazar plays an unusual cyborg Alita |
comes from
James Cameron and Robert Rodriguez and has
Rosa Salazar playing the powerful cyborg but her face has been rendered with CGI to give her the specific look. The movie comes out next July!
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ALITA: BATTLE ANGELis an action-packed story of hope, love and empowerment. Set several centuries in the future, the abandoned Alita (
Rosa Salazar) is found in the
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Ed Skrein plays a villain named Zapan |
scrapyard of Iron City by Ido (
Christoph Waltz), a compassionate cyber-doctor who takes the unconscious cyborg Alita to his clinic. When Alita
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Keean Johnson plays Alita's love interest |
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
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Jennifer Connelly is also in the cast of the movie |
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
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Alita will discover she's a battle angel next July! |
new friend, Hugo (
Keean Johnson), offers instead to help trigger her memories. A growing affection develops between the two until deadly forces
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Oscar winner Mahershala Ali also stars in the movie |
come after Alita and threaten her new found relationships. It is then that Alita discovers she has extraordinary fighting abilities that could be used to save the
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Alita has been made on a very risky massive $200 million budget |
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
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James Cameron left Alita's helm to direct new Avatars |
injustices of this dark, corrupt world, and discover that one young woman can change the world in which she lives.