At long last Fox has
finally found someone to play the love interest to Rosa Salazar's Alita in
Robert Rodriguez's upcoming big screen adaptation of Yukito Kishiro's popular Japanese
manga series Alita: Battle Angel, which James Cameron is producing alongside his Lightstorm Entertainment partner Jon
Landau.
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.
Nashville's Keen
Johnson is set to play a young man named Hugo, who despite making ends meet by
stealing robot parts, spends time with Alita teaching her how to play a
gladiatorial-type game called Motorball.
The studio did a
couple of rounds of testing for the role, and among the candidates were Douglas
Booth ("Jupiter Ascending"), Noah Silver ("Tyrant"), Avan
Jogia ("Tut"), and Jack Lowden ("Dunkirk").
Also starring Jackie
Earle Haley, Christoph Waltz, and Ed Skrein, the film should begin production
shortly for a July 2018 opening.
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