James Cameron's Live Action Battle Angel Alita

Dean Siren writes "Moviehole.net reports that James Cameron wants to direct a live action Battle Angel Alita movie. Cameron says, "The issue is will it be the next film, or will it be the one after the next film? That's really all there is to it at this point. We've done a tremendous amount of design for the film, we're fine-tuning the script, it's just a matter of time." As for the movie itself, "Motorball might find its way more into the second film - I definitely want to do more than one film. I want to create a world and a character that can go through at least one more film, possibly more. And that's not just for the classic financial reasons, it's just that I think there's a possibility for a real mythology here, so I feel that this is a good canvas to do something big that's got more scope." UK Anime and The Z Review are also reporting." I enjoyed the original Battle Angel Alita. It left me feeling like so much more could be done with it. It'll be interesting to see what comes of this one.

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All animation is dubbed...deal with it

[ScottGant]

I thought we killed off all the Anime elitists that try to be cool and trendy by saying "I prefer subtitles because I don't like the dubbing process".

Sorry to say, that all animation is dubbed. And just hearing it in it's original language does nothing really. Better acted? How can you tell? Can you speak Japanese? If you can, then you would know...but I myself can't and couldn't tell if the guy is grunting jibberish over here is any better than the guy grunting jibberish over there. It's all pops and whistles to these ears.

I personally don't like subtitles in animation, because it's a visual medium, not a written one. But hey, what do I know. I'm just under the influence of American entertainment industry that gave us bombs like Lawrence of Arabia, Apocalypse Now, The Empire Strikes Back and Unforgiven to name just 4 evil American films.

All kidding aside though the reason they get crappy actors to dub these is there is no money in it. Anime, no matter how you slice it, is a nitch market. It's not mainstream here in America. So therefore the top voice actors are not flocking to do voice work because I doubt they're even paid scale. They ARE flocking to do voice work for the Disney and SKG films because they ARE paid well. But of course, most of the people who are Anime elitists will poo-poo anything dealing with Anime. Why? Because they can be l33t!

Imagine the Comic Book Store owner in The Simpsons crossed with a rock critic windbag like Jim DeRogatis and you'll have the typical Anime elitist.