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On the heels of yesterday's story that revealed that James Cameron's potential fourth Avatar film will be a prequel comes word, via Swedish site MovieZine, that the writer/director still plans to adapt Yukito Kishiro's sci-fi Manga series Battle Angel.

"We'll focus on 'Avatar' for the next four or five years," producer Jon Landau told the site when asked about Cameron's continued interest in the property, "Hopefully right after that… I am confident you will see it. It's one of my favorite stories, I think it is an incredible story, a journey of self-discovery of a young woman. It is a movie that begs the question: 'What does it mean to be human? Are you human if you have a heart, are you human if you have a mind, are you human if you have a soul?' And I look forward to bringing that film to audiences."

Set in a cyborg-dominated 26th century, 300 years after society fell to a catastrophic war, Battle Angel follows a young girl in a cyborg body who, after being found in wreckage and repaired, realizes that she has lost her memory and doesn't even know who she really is.

The most recent update to the adaptation had Laeta Kalogridis providing the screenplay for the project, which would combine the first three graphic volumes of Kishiro's work, "Ido," "Alita" and "Hugo."

Cameron cast some doubt on whether or not he'd ever realize his adaptation earlier this year, but Landau's update could mean that the project hits theaters as early as 2017.

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=94559

That is a long time away



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AWesome news. I only trust James Cameron with the project unless Joss Whedon can be made to direct it. Those two directors can give powerful female characters compelling tales on screen along with making sure everything is epic.



All hail the KING, Andrespetmonkey

darthdevidem01 said:
AWesome news. I only trust James Cameron with the project unless Joss Whedon can be made to direct it. Those two directors can give powerful female characters compelling tales on screen along with making sure everything is epic.


Don´t forget Christopher Nolan.



James Cameron doesn't have balls anymore to direct such a gruesome manga.

James Cameron from Aliens - yes, please.
James Cameron from Pocahontas - yeah... no.



Yeah! Awesome news. Hopefully, as much as I like the movie due to its stunning visuals, Avatar 2 and 3 relatively fail and he can focus on Battle Angel without doing an extra 3-5 Avatar movies before.

Hopefully Battle Angel becomes a real movie series. More people in the world need to meet dr. Desty Nova.



 

 

 

 

 

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No. Fuck James Cameron and fuck live action adaptations of anime/manga.



I'd rather Cameron just skipped the Avatar sequel/prequels whatever and moved on.

Yes it was fun to see the world of Pandora in 3D, but the story was thin and predictable (Dances with Smurfs indeed, only thing is Costner's movie is far better), and really did anyone *love* any of those characters?

I'd rather see Cameron do something with Schwarzenegger again before another Avatar film.