James Cameron and Robert Rodriguez will team up to finally bring the Avatar director?s manga adaptation, Battle Angel Alita, to the big screen, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
Cameron, who has been trying to get a film of the manga series by Yukito Kishiro off the ground for 15 years, has recruited Rodriguez to direct a live-action version. He will produce it with Jon Landau. Battle Angel Alita, first published in 1990, tells the story of a female cyborg, called Alita, who is saved from a junkyard by a scientist who names her after his dead cat. She is rebooted with no knowledge of where she?s from or why she?s been dumped. The only skill she remembers is her martial arts training, which she uses to become a bounty hunter.
Cameron said he was ?pumped? to be working with Rodriguez. ?We?re already like two kids building a go-kart,? he said.
The director of Titanic and the first two Terminator films is still working on sequels to Avatar (2009), the highest-grossing film of all time. Set on a planet called Pandora, the franchise follows a soldier (Sam Worthington) who uses a computer program to transport his consciousness into an alien body. The next Avatar film recently had its release date pushed back to 2017. Cameron ? who wrote the three films simultaneously ? blamed the complexity of the project for the wait.
