Suddenly, an upgraded Grewishka appears and challenges Alita to a duel, revealing that he has been sent by Zalem's technocrat overlord, Nova, to destroy her. Zapan, a cyborg Hunter-Warrior bully, provokes Alita, and she severely beats him in a fight, triggering a chaotic bar brawl until Ido arrives to intervene. At the Kansas Bar, she and Hugo are unable to recruit other Hunter-Warriors to help her take down Grewishka. Recognizing that the body belonged to a Berserker-deadly shock troops of the enemy nation United Republics of Mars (URM) from the Fall, of which Alita was a member-Ido refuses to install Alita in it.įrustrated, Alita registers herself as a Hunter-Warrior. Alita finds a highly advanced cyborg body in a crashed spaceship outside the city. Despite Alita believing that fighting will help her rediscover her past, Ido discourages her from becoming a Hunter-Warrior. Chiren, who is working for Vector, for help. Ido reveals that he is a Hunter-Warrior, a bounty hunter hired by the Factory. She kills two of the cyborgs and damages Grewishka, who retreats. Ido is injured, and Alita instinctively fights using "Panzer-Kunst", a lost combat art for machine bodies. One night, Alita follows Ido they are ambushed by a gang of cyborg serial killers led by Grewishka. Secretly, Hugo robs cyborgs of their parts for Vector, owner of the Motorball tournament and the 'de facto' ruler of the Factory, Iron City's governing authority. Hugo later introduces Alita to Motorball, a Rollerball-like racing sport played by cyborg gladiators. Alita awakens with no memory of her past and quickly befriends Hugo, a young man who dreams of moving to the wealthy sky city of Zalem. Ido attaches a new cyborg body to the brain and names her " Alita" after his deceased daughter. Dyson Ido discovers a disembodied female cyborg with an intact human brain while scavenging for parts in the massive scrapyard of Iron City. In 2563, 300 years after Earth was devastated by a catastrophic war known as "The Fall", scientist Dr. The film grossed over $405 million worldwide, making it Rodriguez's highest-grossing film, and received praise from critics for its action sequences, visual effects, and Salazar's performance, while the screenplay was criticized. It is the first film produced by Lightstorm Entertainment since Avatar, and the last film released by 20th Century Fox before the acquisition of 21st Century Fox by Disney. It was released in the United States on February 14, 2019, by 20th Century Fox in RealD 3D, Dolby Cinema, 4DX, ScreenX, and IMAX 3D formats. Principal photography began in October 2016 in Austin, Texas, mostly at Rodriguez's Troublemaker Studios, and lasted until February 2017.Īlita: Battle Angel had its world premiere at the Odeon Leicester Square in London on January 31, 2019, and was released in Hong Kong, Indonesia, Macau, Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea, and Taiwan on February 5, 2019, marking Chinese New Year. After years of development hell, Rodriguez was announced as Alita's director in April 2016, with Salazar cast as the lead the following month. Christoph Waltz, Jennifer Connelly, Mahershala Ali, Ed Skrein, Jackie Earle Haley and Keean Johnson star in supporting roles.Īnnounced in 2003, production was repeatedly delayed due to Cameron's work on Avatar (2009) and its sequels. Rosa Salazar stars through performance-capture animation as Alita, a cyborg who awakens in a new body with no memory of her past and sets out to uncover her destiny. It was directed by Robert Rodriguez, produced by James Cameron and Jon Landau, and written by Cameron and Laeta Kalogridis. Alita: Battle Angel is a 2019 American cyberpunk sci-fi action film based on Yukito Kishiro's manga series Gunnm (or Battle Angel Alita in English).
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
Details
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |