James Cameron Shared His ALITA: BATTLE ANGEL Ideas with Robert Rodriguez While He Was Working on SIN CITY
James Cameron sounds like one interesting guy who takes forever to do any of the grandiose ideas he has. Avatar came out in 2009, and here we are a decade later, finally getting the sequels. This isn’t the only project that has taken 10+ years to see completed though.
You know that hit new film among anime fans called Alita: Battle Angel? He’s been working on it for over 20 year and he introduced his ideas to director Robert Rodriguez for the film back while he was working on Sin City. In a recent interview, Rodriguez explained:
“And suddenly, he unveils this 15-minute presentation with this insane artwork, voiceover narration, story concepts … all this stuff from the manga. It wasn’t just the character design — I mean, it was the whole Alita world! I was working on Sin City at the time, trying to figure out how to bring that comic book aesthetic to a live-action movie. But this was just next-level. When the light went back up, I said to him, ‘That’s fantastic! I don’t know how the hell you’re going to pull that off, Jim, but — best of luck!’ You looked at what he was aiming for and you just thought, Man … hopefully you’ll be able to actually do some of this by the time you’re ready to shoot. Which, considering this was going to be the next picture he was going to direct…”
Clearly Alita was not Cameron’s next film as he went on to give us Avatar, but it’s crazy to think he’s had the ideas for some of his movies for over a decade before they see the light of day.
Source: Rolling Stone