This little angel is tough as nails
James Cameron Talks Battle Angle
There was actually a much shorter interview posted a while back where James
didn't say much of anything, except admitting that there will be lots of
CGI use in Battle Angel. Here are some snippets from the interview:
Cameron: the changeover to
d-cinema, which is going to be happening throughout North America and eventually
Europe and so-on, where they are literally going to replace every projector
in North America in the next five or six years, however long it takes, because
in order to display the stereo, the 3D, you need to have those digital projectors.
I need those theaters, so I've sort of been waiting until the right moment
to make a big movie and we believe that moment is now. So we're in pre-production
now on a movie called Battle Angel, which is based on a Japanese Manga series
of graphic novels by an artist named Yukito Kishiro...
CS: Will it be live action?
Cameron: Live action and CG mixed,
meaning we will build sets, we'll shoot with actors and we'll have CG characters.
Alita will be CG; she'll be performed by an actress but what you see in
the film will be CG.
CS:Like Gollum?
Cameron: That's a very good example.
CS:What is the basic plot of Battle Angel?
Cameron: 26th century, the story takes place 300 years after a societal collapse caused by a major war, but in that society, it's a technological dark age following a pinnacle of achievement far, far beyond where we are right now. So in a sense it's post-apocalyptic, but it's post-apocalyptic from a very high level. So now, you've got cyborg technology as just a way of life. People are augmented a lot as workers and so on, so being a cyborg is not unusual. The main character is a cyborg. She has an organic human brain, and she looks like she's about fourteen years old....
Head over to ComingSoon.Net
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