Robert Rodriguez is ready in anticipation for an Alita: Battle Angel sequel.
Fans hoping to see a sequel to Alita: Battle Angel might lastly be getting a follow-up. The preliminary adaptation grossed a large $404 million globally and has since change into a cult basic with an enormous following on-line. A sequel has but to be formally greenlit given the rights lay with twentieth Century Studios, the film studio previously often called twentieth Century Fox. According to Alita helmer Robert Rodriguez, now that the smoke from the Disney and Fox merger has cleared, it is more and more doable work might start on Alita 2 sooner relatively than later.
“Yeah, Jim [Cameron] and I always talk about how we’d love to do another Alita,” Rodriguez instructed TheWrap this week. “That studio [20th Century] was bought by another studio [Disney]. They’re starting to make movies now. But that for a while 20th Century wasn’t making any of their movies. I think now you’re seeing a few rolling out. We would love to.”
Rodriguez directed the movie from a script written by James Cameron and Laeta Kalogridis. Earlier this 12 months, Cameron not solely mentioned sequels had been taking place, nevertheless it was seemingly a number of movies could be made within the franchise. Cameron’s Oscar-winning, money-making Avatar franchise is twentieth Century’s largest property, so it is seemingly solely a matter of time earlier than the filmmaker is ready to get extra of the flicks off the bottom.
“Robert [Rodriguez] and I had a conversation about it two weeks ago. We’re very excited about that prospect,” Alita producer and frequent Cameron collaborator Jon Landau instructed us final 12 months. “Alita is 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.”
He added, “Alita Army! Way to go keep it up. I got, I tell you a funny story. I went back to Los Angeles. I’ve been in New Zealand for quite some time and I went back to Los Angeles over the summer and the day I was there, the first day back, I opened the Los Angeles Times and there’s an ad from the Alita Army in color and I was like, ‘There you go! Thank you. Keep it up!'”
Alita: Battle Angel is now streaming on Hulu.
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