Mahershala Ali, who you can currently see giving an
outstanding performance as the villainous Cornell Stokes, a.k.a. Cottonmouth in
Marvel's Netflix series Luke Cage, is in talks to join the growing cast of Robert Rodriguez's upcoming big screen adaptation of Yukito Kishiro's popular Japanese manga series Alita: Battle Angel.
Set in the
26th century, the film sees the people and
cyborgs of the Scrapyard living 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.
Should the
deal be finalized Ali will play Vector, a villain who both runs and fixes matches in the gladiatorial-style
combat game called Motorball.
Rosa Salazar, Jackie Earle Haley, Christoph Waltz, Keen
Johnson, and Ed Skrein are also starring in the film, which James Cameron is
producing the film along with his Lightstorm
Entertainment partner Jon Landau.
Shooting is set to begin this month in Texas for a
July 2018 opening.
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