Two-time
Academy Award winning actor Christoph Waltz is in negotiations to
star in the upcoming big screen adaptation of Yukito Kishiro's
popular manga series Alita: Battle Angel, which Robert Rodriguez will
direct and James Cameron will produce.
Set
in the 26th century, in
Battle Angel Alita, the
people and cyborgs of the Scrapyard live beneath the floating and
ruling city of Tiphares, whose trash pours down below. One day Doctor
Dyson Ido, a former Tipharean citizen and doctor specializing in
cyborg repairs, finds the intact head of young cyborg-girl in a huge
pile of scrap. He takes her in, fixes her, and gives her a name,
Alita. Still amnesiac, but with knowledge of long forgotten fighting
techniques, Alita decides to become a bounty collector.
Waltz
is in talks to play Ido opposite Maze Runner actress Rosa Salazar in
the lead role.
Production
is expected to start in the fall for a July 2018 release.
Source
- THR
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