Alita: Battle Angel
Christoph Waltz still wants to makeAlita : Battle Angel 2 , but mistrust it might not happen now that Disney own the property . Thanks to their leverage of Fox(which was finalized last twelvemonth ) , the Mouse House has gained control over lucrative sci - fi franchise likeAlien , Predator , andPlanet of the Apes , in addition to James Cameron ’s mega - tentpoleAvatar . They also hold the right to another sci - fi project from theTerminatorfilmmaker in the conformation ofAlita : Battle Angel , a live - action version of the cyberpunk manga / anime which Cameron developed for several old age before handing it off to Robert Rodriguez to direct instead .
exhaust in February 2019 ( about a calendar month before Disney formally acquired Fox),Alita : Battle Angelstars Rosa Salazar as the titulary hero , a cyborg who awakens in the 26th century with no memory of her yesteryear but is helped by the kindly scientist Dr. Dyson Ido ( Waltz ) . Using the old rule of quarter round that a movie postulate to double its budget to make a profit , Alitawas a modest hitbut a success even so , take in $ 405 million at the box business office on a $ 170 million budget . In spite of this , a sequel has yet to be announcedand Waltz suspects it has more to do with the dealership ’s fresh owner than anything else .
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verbalize withColliderto advance his new Quibi project , Most Dangerous Game , the Oscar - achiever guarantee he’d"Of course!“return forAlita : Battle Angel 2 , saying"I know that masses like it and apart from what others say , I loved it and I like working on it and I liked the upshot . “He also admitted he has n’t heard anything about a sequel happening and speculated it has to do with Disney buying Fox , before adding"Maybe it does n’t fit into the Disneyfication , but I have no clue . I have no clue . "
Case in point : back in February , buff go # AlitaSequel trendingon Twitter in an endeavor to encourage Disney to green - illume the undertaking . Some of them move a step further and even paid tofly a banner promotingAlita : Battle Angel 2over the 2020 Oscars ceremony a few day later . On top of all that , Salazar ( like Waltz ) is on the record saying she would love to recall for the continuation , and manufacturer Jon Landau has voiced his support for these fan campaigns byencouraging them to keep pestering Disneywith requests to make it occur . Suffice it to say , there ’s an audience that wants moreAlita ; whether it ’s freehanded enough to get the Mouse House ’s care , that ’s another matter .
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