ALITA: BATTLE ANGEL Sequel Update; Film Will Utilize the Filmmaking Tech Created for AVATAR 2
James Cameron, Robert Rodriguez, and producer Jon Landau are working hard to get an Alita: Battle Angel sequel off the ground. Cameron and Rodriguez even swore a blood oath to make it happen!
The creative team wants the sequel to happen, the fans want the sequel, and today we have an update from Landau, who says, “We’re working on it.” He also explained that when they do make the movie, they will utilize the filmmaking technology that was created to help bring Avatar 2: The Way of Water to life. During an interview with Screen Rant, Landau said:
“I think what we’ve learned from Avatar is how much more facial nuance and subtlety that we can get into characters that we want to be emotional and emote that are humanoid. Alita would not have been possible, but for what we did on Avatar. Avatar: Way of Water would not be what it is but what we did for Alita. And now let’s put that back and give it back to Alita. We’re talking to Robert and talking to Rosa and all is good.”
It’s exciting to hear that there has been movement on this project and that “all is good.” There’s a real chance that an Alita: Battle Angel sequel could actually happen!
Landau previously said of the movie: "Robert [Rodriguez] and I had a conversation about it two weeks ago. We're very excited about that prospect. Alita is a movie that even now having recently like re-watched it for what we had, we're really proud of that movie. And we think that there are more stories to tell with her character and that's why we want to go back to it."
When previously talking about the sequel, Rodriguez said that he and Cameron are still very much interested in making it. He said: "Jim [Cameron] and I talked about it recently, and we're still very interested. I told him, 'Let me deliver Boba and then let's figure out a pitch.'"
They do have a plan for the next chapter of the story as wrote out 1000 pages of notes for a whole trilogy that they were initially planning.
The film is based on the manga series Gunnm by Yukito Kishiro. The story is set several centuries in the future, the abandoned Alita is found in the scrapyard of Iron City by Ido, a compassionate cyber-doctor who takes the unconscious cyborg Alita to his clinic. When Alita awakens, she has no memory of who she is, nor does she have any recognition of the world she finds herself in. As Alita learns to navigate her new life and the treacherous streets of Iron City, Ido tries to shield her from her mysterious past.
Are you happy to see that there continues to be movement on the Alita: Battle Angel sequel?