Live Action Anime

Seems I missed this exciting interview earlier this week due to the craziness of finals.  But anyways, here is some awesome news for fans of Battl Angel Alita and James Cameron. The acclaimed director, whose recent film Avatar just premiered yesterday, sat down to talk about his new film, as well as his upcoming live action adaptation of Yukito Kushiro’s Battle Angel Alita with MTV’s Splash Page.

The movie which was originally called Battle Angel, has had the “Alita” tacked back on just as the story was originally called.  In the video interview, Cameron says, “The mixture of live-action and CG is a little trickier in 3-D than it is 2-D,” Cameron told MTV News. “Now we see it’s good to have done ‘Avatar’ first before ‘Battle Angel,’ because the tricky scenes are where you’re blending live-action photography, stereoscopic photography and CG.”

Surprisngly, it looks like already a year’s worth of production has been put into the film, and now awaits the most important part.  The cast.  “We’re not that far down the line,” Cameron continued. “We have a very good script and we’ve done a lot of production design. We’ve done about a year of production design and we’ve put together an art reel that shows the arc of the film.”

To watch the full interview, go to the link above.  And if you want to discus this news, you can head on over to our forums.