rom visionary filmmakers James Cameron (Avatar) and Robert Rodriguez (Sin City), comes
Alita: Battle Angel, an epic adventure of hope and empowerment, based upon the Manga graphic novel
series by Yukito Kishiro. When Alita (Rosa Salazar) awakens with no memory of who she is in a future
world she does not recognize, she is taken in by Ido (Christoph Waltz), a compassionate cyberphysician
who realizes that somewhere in this abandoned cyborg core is the heart and soul of a young woman with
an extraordinary past. As Alita learns to navigate her new life and the treacherous streets of Iron City, Ido
tries to shield her from her mysterious history while her street-smart new friend Hugo (Keean Johnson)
offers instead to help trigger her memories. But it is only when the deadly and corrupt forces that run the
city, headed by Vector (Mahershala Ali), come after Ido and Alita that she discovers a clue to her past –
she has unique fighting abilities ingrained in her that those in power will stop at nothing to control. If she
can stay out of their grasp, she could be the key to saving her friends, her family and the world she’s
grown to love.
Alita’s Battle Begins
In the 23rd Century, Earth underwent “the Fall,” a shattering war that halted all technological progress and left in its wake a society where every last shred of tech is repurposed and the strong prey on the weak. 300 years later, the heart of life on Earth beats in Iron City, a rich
melting pot of survivors–a city full of ordinary people and cybernetically-enhanced humans living side- by-side in the shadow of Zalem, the last of the great Sky cities. Iron City may be an oppressed factory town, cranking out goods for the invisible elites who live in the sky, but it has its own color and energy, its thrills and its aspirants. And now it is about to get an unlikely hero, a teenage cyborg who emerges from a junkyard to discover her identity and become a source of buoyant hope.
With Alita: Battle Angel comes a total sensorial immersion into a world of unbridled imagination, breathless action and visceral emotion. Two of today’s leading creators of game-changing movie realms,
James Cameron and Robert Rodriguez, have combined their mutual zeal for world-building and empowered female heroines to push the possibilities of visual story-craft into a new zone. They now invite audiences to enter directly into an intricately alive metropolis of the future—and into the high- octane yet heartfelt mission of Alita to fulfill her human potential—forged through an alchemical mix of evocative performances, creative design, state-of-the-art performance-capture technology, CG imagery, VFX and native 3D filmmaking.
