Two Fedoras

Larry Carroll, of MTV’s Splashpage, sat down with Jon Landau who talked about Director James Cameron’s intent to take on the task of bringing Battle Angel Alita to film once Avatar 2 is  completed. I gotta say I have the feeling this won’t go so well, and will still make 2 trillion dollars for Cameron to swim around in like Old Scrooge McDuck.

“We had a wonderful writer who came in and collaborated with Jim, Laeta Kalogridis, who worked on it; Laeta brought to our attention that there was much more to this world of Battle Angel than we ever knew,” explained Landau. “We were familiar with the anime that had been produced, we were familiar with one of the main books. But she opened us up to the other nine books that exist, and how rich that world is.”

In a way, it was this eye-opening that caused Cameron to choose “Avatar” first.

“We really wanted to take our time in developing a large arc-ing story that really encompasses the whole world,” remembered Landau. “We were very close to doing that movie before we did ‘Avatar,’ and I think you’ll see that resurface. That’s a story in our minds about: What does it mean to be human? What does it mean to fall in love? Are you human if you have a heart? Are you human if you have a mind? Or are you human if you just have a body? It’s a journey of self-discovery for a young girl.”

Check out the rest of the interview over at MTV Splashpage.