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In this video I will share my thoughts on Alita, Battle Angel which is slated for theaters in July 2018 co written by James Cameron and Robert Rodriguez and directed by Robert Rodriguez based on the 1990 manga Battle Angel Alita by Yukito Kishiro. Alita, Battle Angel takes place in a futuristic wasteland and follows a cyborg girl named Alita whose head is discovered among a pile of garbage beneath a floating utopia called Tiphares. Alita is adopted by a cyber doctor named Ido who gives her a new body but is unable to help her remember who she is. Her only connection with her past is a fighting style called Panzer Kunzt. Over the course of her journey to find out who and what she is she finds herself and, ultimately, love. This is the film Cameron intended to direct before Avatar. In a nutshell, think Mad Max meets The Bourne Identity.
