00:07battle angel could actually be coming back sooner than we expected based on the latest
00:12updates floating around if you're not familiar with it it's a 2019 cyberpunk action movie based
00:18on yukita kishiro's manga battle angel alita the film was directed by robert rodriguez and produced
00:24by james cameron and john landau with a script from cameron and lighta calagridis it mixes live
00:31action with heavy motion capture and cgi to bring its world to life in a recent interview with forbes
00:37about why he decided to sell his california mansion james cameron casually hinted that multiple alita
00:43battle angel sequels might actually be happening he didn't share any details or timelines but it
00:48sounds like development could be happening in between his work on the remaining avatar sequels
00:53check out what he said and on avatar i'm working in wellington and los angeles and on the new alita
00:59battle angel films i'll be working in austin so it just didn't make sense for us anymore he also once
01:05said that i appreciate the loyalty of the alita fans robert rodriguez and i have sworn a blood
01:10oath to do at least one more alita film in fact we're thinking of an architecture that bridges to
01:15a third film but we'll be satisfied if we can make one more and we're making progress on that
01:20in a recent interview earlier this year robert rodriguez made it clear that a sequel is still
01:25very much on his radar in fact he even said the massive cyberpunk set from the first film is
01:30still sitting in his studio basically waiting to be used again whenever the sequel happens
01:35before james cameron's latest comments rodriguez had already reassured fans back in may that alita
01:41battle angel 2 is still a real possibility yeah we want to do another one for sure you have to
01:47come to
01:47my studio that whole city is still in my parking lot 20 foot ceilings seven streets it's like the
01:53largest standing set in the country if not the world even though it looks like robert rodriguez
01:57and james cameron are likely to return for an alita battle angel sequel it's still not clear who else
02:03from the original cast would be back the first movie featured rosa salazar christoph waltz jennifer
02:09connelly mahershala ali ed skrein jackie earl haley kian johnson and more that said rosa salazar who
02:16plays alita has always been very open about wanting to return back in 2022 she said she regularly talks
02:24with cameron and rodriguez about doing another film joking that she might be pestering them so much it
02:29could turn into a legal issue even though that interview was a while ago there's no sign she's
02:35changed her stance especially now that both directors keep teasing progress on the sequel
02:39i harass them all the time like it might become a legal issue soon i email with james cameron a
02:45lot
02:45and he's always like i'm so down which is crazy to hear someone like james cameron be like i'm so
02:51down when we were in south by southwest i went over to robert rodriguez's house and had tea and was
02:57just
02:57talking about alita really with this much support from the creators and cast it wouldn't be surprising if
03:02a sequel shows up in the next two to three years the first film pulled in around 405 million dollars
03:08worldwide making it robert rodriguez's highest grossing movie and it was made on a budget of
03:14about 150 million on top of that its popularity didn't really stop at the box office over time it
03:20grew into a cult classic with fans constantly pushing for a sequel and keeping the conversation
03:25alive online the story is set in the year 2563 about 300 years after earth was destroyed in a
03:32massive war against the united republic of mars in the scrapyards of iron city scientist dr dyson
03:38ito discovers a disembodied female cyborg with a fully intact human brain he rebuilds her with a
03:44new body and names her alita after his late daughter when alita wakes up she has no memory of her
03:50past life
03:50she soon meets hugo a street smart guy who dreams of escaping iron city and reaching the wealthy floating
03:56city of zalem she also crosses paths with dr chiron ito's ex-wife hugo later introduces alita to
04:04motorball a brutal rollerball style sport where cyborgs compete in high-speed combat but behind the
04:10scenes hugo is involved in a darker scheme stealing cyborg parts for vector the man who runs the motorball
04:16tournament and effectively controls iron city's governing system known as the factory one night alita secretly
04:23follows ito and they end up getting ambushed by a group of deadly cyborgs led by gruishka ito gets
04:29seriously injured and in the moment alita instinctively unleashes panzer kunst a lost martial art design
04:35for cyborg combat she manages to take down two attackers and heavily damaged gruishka forcing him to
04:41retreat afterwards ito reveals that he's actually a hunter warrior basically a bounty hunter working for
04:48the factory meanwhile gruishka goes to dr kieran for help who's now working under vector alita
04:54starts to believe that fighting is the key to unlocking her forgotten past but ito tries to
04:58stop her from becoming a hunter warrior things get more complicated when alita discovers a powerful
05:03berserker cyborg body advanced urm military tech and realizes she might have once been part of that enemy
05:10force when ito refuses to install her into it alita feels betrayed and frustrated unsure of why he's
05:16holding her back alita officially signs up as a hunter warrior later at the kansas bar she and hugo
05:23try to team up with other hunter warriors to go after gruishka things escalate when zappin another
05:28hunter warrior provokes her and alita ends up beating him in a fight sparking a full-on bar brawl until
05:34ito
05:35steps in soon after an upgraded gruishka shows up sent by zalim's mysterious ruler nova to eliminate alita
05:42gruishka overpowers her and seriously damages her body but ito hugo and hunter warrior mcteague
05:48manage to force him to retreat feeling responsible ito makes up with alita and finally transfers her
05:54consciousness into the powerful berserker body meanwhile alita falls in love with hugo and enters
06:00a motorball tryout hoping to win the prize money so she can help him reach zalim but hugo decides to
06:06leave his criminal life behind and confronts his partner tangy zapin then shows up kills tangy and
06:12frames hugo for the murder hugo goes on the run and calls alita for help she abandons the motorball
06:18race to save him but arrives too late zapin mortally wounds hugo dr kieran manages to save him by attaching
06:25his severed head to alita's life support system when zapin tries to interfere again alita takes his damascus
06:31blade and brutally cuts off his face in retaliation ito later saves hugo by transplanting his head onto
06:37a cyborg body he also reveals a harsh truth to alita vector's promise to help hugo reach zalim was
06:43never real and in reality the only way anyone from iron city ever gets there is by becoming a motorball
06:49champion alita then confronts vector who shockingly reveals that dr kieran has already been killed and
06:55stripped for her organs vector also brings back gruishka but this time alita easily destroys
07:00him using her original berserker body during the chaos nova begins speaking through vector
07:06showing that he's been pulling strings from zalim all along when nova threatens her friends alita kills
07:12vector on the spot ito later contacts her with urgent news hugo is climbing a cargo tube towards zalim
07:18alita catches up and begs him to come back with her and he agrees but before they can escape nova
07:25activates a serrated defense ring that tears hugo apart and sends him falling from the structure
07:30alita manages to catch him but she can't pull him back up in their final moment hugo thanks
07:35her before slipping away months later alita has become a rising star in motorball driven by revenge
07:42she raises her sword towards zalim while a smiling nova watches from above setting the stage for what's
07:48next because i'll be bringing you more updates on upcoming movies before they even drop so keep an eye
07:55out for that along with the latest on your other favorite shows and movies stay tuned and i'll see you
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