The live-action
Battle Angel Alita film just recently cast its lead and now it has a release date. The Robert Rodriguez directed manga adaptation will hit US theaters on July 20, 2018.
Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials breakout star Rosa Salazar was recently awarded the titular lead role. Laeta Kalogridis and James Cameron penned the most recent draft of the script.
Other films debuting in July 2018 are Marvel Studios'
Ant-Man & The Wasp [07/06] and Warner Bros.'
Aquaman [07/27].
The people and cyborgs of the Scrapyard live beneath the floating city of Tiphares, whose inhabitants dump their junk in the Scrapyard and rule above its inhabitants. One day Ido, a former Tipharean citizen and doctor specializing in cyborg repairs, finds the intact head of young cyborg-girl in a vast pile of scrap. He takes her in, gives her a body and the name Alita. Alita then discovers long forgotten fighting techniques hidden in her body and decides to become a hunter-warrior; a bounty collector employed by the factories of Tiphares.