Robert Rodriguez explains why his movie adaptation of famous manga ‘Alita: Battle Angel’ won’t make the mistake ‘Ghost in the Shell’ did

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• Robert Rodriguez and producer Jon Landau (“Avatar”) talked to Business Insider at CinemaCon about the evolution of bringing “Alita: Battle Angel” to the screen.
• It was originally a project James Cameron was to make, after he discovered the manga around 2000. However, the success of “Avatar” changed everything.
• Rodriguez has resurrected the project, and explained how it will still feel like a Cameron movie, and why it won’t make the mistakes of recent manga release, “Ghost in the Shell.”

Before James Cameron made “Avatar” and broke all box-office records, he was planning on making the big-screen adaptation of “Battle Angel Alita,” the famous manga series created by Yukito Kishiro.

In fact, Cameron’s deep dive around 2000 into the rich material about a cyborg named Alita (played in the movie by Rose Salazar) who tries to rediscover her past after being found in a garbage heap by a cybernetics doctor, wasn’t just going to be a single movie but a franchise.

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