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The casting continues. Jackie Earle Haley has been added to the cast of Alita: Battle Angel , the live-action version of Battle Angel Alita , also known as Gunnm , it was reported today. The actor will play “a monstrous cyborg in a villain role …Read more »
Inglorious news, indeed. It’s been reported that actor Christoph Waltz is in early negotiations to co-star in Alita: Battle Angel , the long-gestating live-action version of Battle Angel Alita . Waltz’s mission, should he accept it, would be to play Doctor Dyson Ido, the scientist …Read more »
James Cameron has been dreaming up a live-action adaptation of Yukito Kishiro's Battle Angel Alita manga for a long time, and plans recently started heating up more and more. Following earlier news that put Robert Rodriguez ( Sin City , Once Upon a Time in …Read more »
James Cameron and Robert Rodriguez’s Hollywood adaptation of Battle Angel Alita , which Cameron has been attempting to get off the ground for years, is inching towards becoming a reality, with three actresses testing for the main role, reports the Hollywood Reporter. Actresses Zendaya ( …Read more »
Over the years we've heard plenty about Yukito Kishiro's Battle Angel Alita manga being one of the dream projects of director James Cameron ( Terminator , Aliens , Avatar ). He's busy with the Avatar sequels, though, so while he's still on board to produce …Read more »
Here we’ve got yet another buried treasure of Japanese animation, bubbling back to the surface thanks to the reticence of a certain King of the A$$holes World, James Cameron. Superstar producer/director Cameron has a lot of irons in the fire, and when he announced his …Read more »
As I noted in the pages of Otaku USA, the trouble with Ergo Proxy is that Re-l Mayer isn't the main character. Contrary to the advertising, the series is not actually about a young girl blasting robots to smithereens throughout the war-torn, post-apocalyptic future. Post-apocalyptic …Read more »
Bones' 2015 production isn't the last we'll be seeing of the Bones Blockade Battlefront anime adaptation. Based on the manga by Trigun author Yasuhiro Nightow, Kekkai Sensen is coming back for another round, and the staff is getting a bit of a shakeup along the …Read more »
We’ve posted a few times the last month or so about the new sci-fi anime film Expelled From Paradise , written by Gen Urobuchi ( Madoka Magica ). They’ve been busy over at the movie’s official YouTube page, posting behind-the-scenes clips and previews. But the …Read more »
Sometimes the only response to the existence of something stupefying is to shrug your shoulders and say: “Hey, it was the Eighties.” This phrase could be the mantra of Battle Royal High School , not to be confused with Battle Royale , the book by …Read more »
Those finding themselves late to the Burst Angel party are probably ready to skip past this OVA write-up in favor of something they're more familiar with; something that isn't already drenched in history. We all know how intimidating established worlds can be to new viewers, …Read more »
As infrequently as live action Hollywood adaptations of manga and anime properties tend to actually make it through to production (see: Akira , Battle Angel Alita , the live-action Robotech with Tobey Maguire), every once in a while something slips through, a freak blip in …Read more »
Soon, Yoko Taro’s NieR: Automata will be making its way to the small screen as an animated series. Known specifically as ver1.1a, this will be a new look at the world of 2B and 9S. In the meantime, anime is full of mechanical protagonists exploring what it …Read more »
Following up on the post about the Battle Angel Alita manga taking a break, another series is going on hiatus for different reasons. As announced in this year’s 22nd issue of Hakusensha’s Hana to Yume magazine, the Skip Beat! manga is going on another month-long …Read more »
Live-action anime adaptations are hit-or-miss, at best. Some have landed amazingly, like Alita: Battle Angel and Death Note. Others have landed less than amazingly, like Ghost in the Shell and… the other Death Note. And some — like Cowboy Bebop — remain to be seen. As we …Read more »
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