Cameron commits to Avatar Sequels over Battle Angel
Wednesday, October 27th, 2010This was reported in Variety but I located this on Anime News Network. Director James Cameron has officially said that his next films are going to be sequels to the Oscar-nominated ‘Avatar’. This is a pretty disappointing announcement to anime fans, because it had been thought that Cameron would be doing a live-action version of the early 1990’s manga and OVA series ‘Battle Angel Alita’ which he has been working on since about 2003. This is very disappointing, chiefly because the number of live-action anime adaptations in theaters have been both critical and financial flops including ‘Speed Racer’ which was done by the Wachowski’s of ‘The Matrix’ fame. A film like ‘Battle Angel’ with a director like Cameron who is well known for making successful films could have helped increase the credibility of live-action adaptations of anime. But with this news, we’re left waiting to see if the film will EVER get made.