Monday, July 23, 2018

The new trailer for James Cameron’s Alita: Battle Angel adds backstory and battle

The second trailer for James Cameron’s Alita: Battle Angel has dropped, and while it features a lot of the same quotes as the first one — plus some reused footage, including the title character’s extremely anime leaps — this new sneak peek adds more action, more backstory about the robotic Alita (she’s not what she seems!), more of a sense of the world where it takes place, and a new December release date. The movie was supposed to premiere on July 20th, but Fox delayed its release for five months — which, as the pop culture site Inverse notes, puts it in direct competition with big winter movies like Aquaman and Bumblebee.

Cameron has been working on the project for a decade. It’s an adaptation of Yukito Kishiro’s influential Japanese...

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