Christoph Waltz will see you now.
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Waltz would join Rosa Salazar (Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials, Insurgent) in the film, which is based on Yukito Kishiro’s manga series about an amnesiac cyborg bounty hunter toiling in a dystopian wasteland.
James Cameron had been developing the big screen adaptation for more than a decade, but now that he’s is in pre-production on four Avatar sequels, he has his hands a little full and has turned the Alita reins over to Sin City director Robert Rodriguez. If the deal is sealed, the 59-year-old Australian-German actor will portray Dr Dyson Ido, a cybersurgeon who finds the titular female cyborg and becomes her mentor in the action-adventure film, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
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The film is set to be released in July 2018. He’s very collaborative and we’re already like two kids building a go-kart, just having fun riffing creatively and technically. Cameron meant to direct the movie for many years, but last year handed over the reins to Rodriguez, who is also known for the likes of From Dusk Till Dawn, Desperado, and the Spy Kids movies. “We’re looking forward to learning a lot from each other while we make a kick-ass epic”. Hollywood’s approach to adapting anime and manga, as seen from the casting of Ghost in the Shell, appears to be “We’re taking the characters and the story, but leaving out the Japanese people”. I’m not overly familiar with the story behind ALITA: BATTLE ANGEL, but I’m always up for watching Christoph Waltz doing his thing.
