In short: he still wants to do the movie.
There are many projects that have been associated with James Cameron, and until Avatar seriously went into production he had several films that seemed perpetually like they could actually move forward, or vanish altogether. They include The Dive, Project 880 / Avatar, and Battle Angel, the final one being based on the manga Battle Angel Alita. Obviously Avatar is the film that eventually got the go ahead.
With the director signed to make two sequels to Avatar, possibly shot back to back, he’s going to be busy for the next few years. But Battle Angel, which follows a cyborg who is found and repaired by a scientist, lingers. So would he give it up to another director, or is this a film that James Cameron wants to make himself, someday in the future? The answer seems to be that he’s holding on to it for now. Read More »
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James Cameron has been talking about the possibility of an adaptation of the manga Battle Angel Alita for many years, but any actual film has remained on the distant horizon. Last year, as the release of Avatar was approaching, Cameron said he wasn’t positive he was still going to make the film, and that The Dive might be his next feature. That was counter to other reports that suggested Alita was deep in pre-production.
Cameron has said that the tech of Avatar would be instrumental in making Battle Angel Alita, and his comments about possibly not making the film now seem like a smokescreen, as he continues to talk about the project. Thanks to the release of Avatar on DVD this week, Cameron is doing the interview rounds again, and he spoke about Battle Angel Alita yesterday in LA. Read More »
James Cameron has been talking about potentially remaking the manga Battle Angel Alita for some time now, but it’s always seemed like a distant reality. Now Cameron is hinting that the tech he’s developed for Avatar will be instrumental in Alita, and that the film may actually be closer than we thought. Dare we get our hopes up?
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Jon Landau has collaborated with James Cameron in producing both Titanic and Avatar and, with a bit of luck and a following wind, will go on and collaborate with him further in the future. But on which projects, exactly? Talking to the French magazine Le Film, Landau has given some indication of which pictures Cameron is planning to tackle next: his long awaited manga adaptation Battle Angle Alita, underwater romance The Dive and even a sequel to Avatar.
After the break, how Landau pitched the premise for that follow-up to this year’s most hyped movie.
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