Forum - View topicNEWS: The Hollywood Reporter: Live-Action Battle Angel Alita Film Tests 3 Actresses for Lead Role
|
Goto page Previous 1, 2 Note: this is the discussion thread for this article |
| Author | Message | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
maximilianjenus
Posts: 2862 |
|
|||||
|
well, using a director that is not cameron works.
only in the usa, lol. |
||||||
|
||||||
|
BadNewsBlues
Posts: 5914 |
|
|||||
Not if that director is Robert Rodriguez.
She's Victoria Justice famous. Which is to say outside of her TV roles and her awful music no one really knows who she is. |
||||||
|
||||||
EricJ2
 Posts: 4016 |
|
|||||
Hearing that Cameron's NOT going to do this, while he's living in six-year denial about how many Avatar sequels he's going to make for what will arguably be the rest of his career (unless he takes off after the next sequel and does another five years of underwater IMAX documentaries)-- I can't help but put it in the same category as George Lucas promising he was someday going to get around to directing "Red Tails" and "Radioland Murders", and then later just tossing them off to minor directors as forgettable cheap back-catalog studio filler during slow months, when he was too wrapped up in other franchise-identifying projects to care about personal ones anymore. Yeah: Once upon a time, this was going to be anime/manga's big mainstream Hollywood validation.... 
(On the upside, it's nice to see Robert Rodriguez actually follow through on an announced project. Of course, he hasn't actually started directing it yet, either.) |
||||||
|
||||||
G S Palmer
 Posts: 246 |
|
|||||
|
Zendaya looks the most like Alita, at least in these pictures. As far as her acting chops and whether she should actually have the role, though, I have no idea, since I've never even heard of her.
|
||||||
|
||||||
Emerje
 Posts: 7336 Location: Maine |
|
|||||
|
The only thing I know about Zendaya is that she has acne thanks to all the commercials I'd get hit with on You Tube last year. I never heard of her before those commercials and I haven't heard a thing about her since. So to me she's just the acne girl that wants to be an actress.
I know even less about the other two. Emerje |
||||||
|
||||||
|
Gemnist
Posts: 1757 |
|
|||||
Rodriguez has a very up-and-down career. His kid's flicks are utter trash, but his mature films are generally pretty good, likely due to him being Quentin Tarantino's best buddy. |
||||||
|
||||||
|
Gemnist
Posts: 1757 |
|
|||||
I never commented on Zendaya's acting skills. I just said that pretty soon she'll be banging Tom Holland in a film that will no doubt make her mega-famous (It's Marvel!), and knowing Hollywood they might go the extra mile. If going by acting though... I'm not familiar with any of them, but Monroe's in the new Independence Day movie, so we'll see. |
||||||
|
||||||
|
supersqueak
Posts: 194 |
|
|||||
|
I don't mean to be a hater but why is Zendaya so famous? I hear about her a lot and it seems like she is a rising star but what the hell has she done other than Disney Channel tv shows? I mean obviously she impressed somebody in the business because I hear talks of her being in Spider-Man homecoming but ummm but is she really getting this attention just off of the junk she has done for Disney Channel? I can't speak for her talent because I don't watch Disney Channel shows? Can anyone explain this to me?
|
||||||
|
||||||
Primus
 Posts: 2759 Location: Toronto |
|
|||||
Except Dragon Ball Evolution came out in 2009, with Yo! Son Goku & Friends Return being a 2008 release. |
||||||
|
||||||
|
A donkey
Posts: 1 |
|
|||||
|
I really hope they read the entire manga before they even settle for a lead actress.
Gally, (or Alita) is japanese. Before she was rebuilt as a cyborg, she was an human girl named Yoko I predict a "Last Airbender" box office dud if this gets on with any of these actresses |
||||||
|
||||||
|
BadNewsBlues
Posts: 5914 |
|
|||||
Last Airbender was a dud more so because it's writing and it's director. Not because of it's actors being ill equipped or being "white-washed". |
||||||
|
||||||
|
EricJ2
Posts: 4016 |
|
|||||
MOSTLY the director. But also because the director wanted to do a two-hour-plus epic, which Paramount hacked down to ninety incomprehensible minutes to keep a "kids" audience, thoroughly baffling those unfamiliar with the series, and disappointing those who did know the story. Although it's hard to say whether less Shyamalan was a better thing. |
||||||
|
||||||
Jose Cruz
 Posts: 1773 Location: South America |
|
|||||
Gally was born and instantly converted to cyborg actually. Anyway I have no idea of how this movie might turn out but I imagine it cannot be worse than GitS because James Cameron is very talented. |
||||||
|
||||||
|
Primus
Posts: 2759 Location: Toronto |
|
|||||
James Cameron isn't directing this film anymore. He'll probably be too busy with his Ferngully fanfiction to be intimately involved with this movie. |
||||||
|
||||||
Kadmos1
 Posts: 13550 Location: In Phoenix but has an 85308 ZIP |
|
|||||
|
Since Alita doesn't seem to be Japanese, the issue of ethnicity for her shouldn't be as much of an issue. However, I would choose Zendaya since she does resemble Alita. At least this news is a good progress point compared to the other anime-based movies still in the works
|
||||||
|
||||||
 |
All times are GMT - 5 Hours |
|
|
|
Powered by phpBB © 2001, 2005 phpBB Group