"Alita: Battle Angel" producer Jon Landau has given a promising update on a sequel to the 2019 movie.
"Alita: Battle Angel" serves as an adaptation of the Japanese manga Gunnm (Battle Angel Alita, in English) by Yukito Kishiro.
The movie earned generally positive reviews and was a lukewarm success at the box office but two planned sequels have thus far failed to come to fruition.
The big reason the 2019 movie has taken so long to get off the ground is because the first movie, despite making its money back at the box office, wasn't exactly a runaway hit at $405 million. This was further complicated by Disney acquiring 20th Century Studios.
In a recent interview with Screen Rant, Landau discussed the potential for a sequel, stating that he was holding talks about "Alita 2" with James Cameron, who also co-wrote the 2019 movie and director Robert Rodriguez.
"I'm very proud of that film, and we were doing it concurrently with Avatar. I was down with Robert on the set doing all that, and Jim was involved too and saw it. It came on HBO one night, and Jim watched it and called me after he watched it. He said, "Jon, Alita was on, I just decided to watch it. It's a good movie." (laughs) And it is! So, I want to be able to definitely do more in that world."
Despite delays, Landau has consistently remained upbeat about a sequel. In an interview with Collider for Cameron’s "Avatar: The Way of Water", he said, “We want to do it. But, we're also the type of people, we give 110% of ourselves to whatever we do. It's not something we could have focused on in the midst of ‘Avatar: Way of Water.’ It's something that, a couple of weeks ago, I was talking to Robert. We've had numerous conversations. So it's something that we still want to happen.”
Appetite for an "Alita" Sequel
Landau is not alone in wanting to see Salazar's heroine return to the big screen sometime in the near future.
Cameron and Rodriguez have both remained optimistic about a sequel since the movie's release, with Cameron hinting at the prospect of developing multiple follow-ups to the original.
In an interview with Forbes, the renowned filmmaker revealed that Alita: Battle Angel 2 and a third movie are moving forward.
“And on Avatar, I’m working in Wellington and Los Angeles. And on the new Alita: Battle Angel films, I’ll be working in Austin, so it just didn’t make sense for us anymore,” he said.
Rodriguez, in another interview with Collider, revealed that Cameron had outlined general storylines for the sequels.
"He outlined, very thoroughly, a second and a third film, so there's already material there. So yeah, we're hoping that that will happen," he stated.
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