Coming Soon! James Cameron on Battle Angel! "So we're in pre-production now on a movie called Battle Angel, which is based on a Japanese Manga series of graphic novels by an artist named Yukito Kishiro. It's not in the sort of top ten of graphic novels in Japan; it's a lesser known one, and we're going to make Battle Angel over the next couple of years and release it in '07. By early summer of '07, we expect to have somewhere around a thousand digital 3D theaters that will be able to show an image that looks more or less like what you saw in the IMAX theater but the IMAX theater was film, and this is going to be digital projection... It's a bit of a m?lange of the first three books, which means that it pulls forward the motorball story into the Ido, Alita, Hugo story, if you will.

Live action and CG mixed, meaning we will build sets, we'll shoot with actors and we'll have CG characters. Alita will be CG; she'll be performed by an actress but what you see in the film will be CG... It will be PG-13 -- lots of blood, but it's all blue." I wish him the very best and dying to see this one on the big screen. But a 3D picture that requires you to wear a glasses? That will never fly, IMO.