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Who should play Alita?


If the rumor is true that Cameron is making a live action Alita movie, who should play her?

Only actress I think sort of looks like her is Christina Ricci.

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Emily Browning (of A Series of Unfortunate Events fame) is perfect, if a little young. She looks a LOT like Alita in the manga, if not the Anime. The cartoon was a serious disapointment. Hope the movie isn't either.

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I think Alexa Vega should play Alita, she has that Alita look, secondly what the hell was wrong with the anime its one of my favourites its a fantastic and heartwarming story, I have yet to read the manga though but I know its a great anime and this is to toaster917 mainly you call yourself an anime fan yet you be as ignorant to call anime cartoons *sigh

If you're wondering who Alexa Vega do a search for her on IMDb and you'll see a picture off her

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Alexa Vega does look a lot like the anime Gally, with big cheekbones and a pinched face - unfortunately the animator failed to transfer any of Kushiro's incredible graphic style, nor Alita's original look.

If you found Alita and her world compelling you really should read the manga, as the story and characters are richer and more complex. There are currently 15 volumes of the Gunnm saga, and the anime was an attempt to turn the first 2 into a coherrent story. They barely scratch the surface of the overall storyline.

To MarvelmaniaC69 - As an animator and media studies student, and having done graduate level study on Anime, its history, and its place in popular Japanese culture, I feel I have the right to call a particularly disapointing anime a "cartoon".

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Okay fair enough, if you say it that way sorry if I offended you, but I couldn't find it disapointing as I haven't read the manga and umm...as I said sorry in such a beautifully kind manour.....where exactly can you get the manga.

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You can order most of the series from Amazon.com, they´re a little slow getting the newer issues though. Comic shops have them sometimes.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-form/102-4370024-3363335

Start with ¨rusty angel¨ then ¨tears of an angel¨, I think the rest are numbered.

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Will do, thank you dude......by the way I know this is off subject a little but anyone else heard about a live action off the anime series Trigun being made cause thinking about it, if done right it could be quite cool....no where near as cool as the blissfully awesome anime series though.

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boy are you in for a treat
I saw the anime first then read the manga. it is quite engaging.
at this point i can not recall the anime except that it covers the first to manga's, but they are quite good as far as manga's go, except that at some point in the middle it gets a tad repetitive.

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Lacey Chabert has been my personal choice for years - she looked like Gally in "Lost In Space" with the haircut she had. She really hasn't aged outwardly, and looks to be about the height Gally is portrayed as in the manga...

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I second this one for exactly the same reasons.
Only thing is, can she fight ?
Around 50% or more of any Gunnm / Alita novel is fighting :)

(can't say that for the comics since they're so few pages)

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The rumour IS true. You can listen to the interview in which Cameron talks about Battle Angel here: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4176616. Just click "listen" and skip to 31mins into the interview (right near the end).

Apparently Alita will be CGI so I suppose the question should be who should voice her.

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Sarah michelle gellar should voice her.she has that kinda whiney (If american) voice that i always imagined alita having.

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Winona Ryder she looked a lot like alita in alien 4

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Eliza Dushku could work.

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i'm definatley leaning toward Jessica Alba... just watch the opening to "Dark Angel" if you have it on tape or DVD... smooth out hte curls in the hair and be damned if that isn't gally. Sweet, innocent, yet sexy and powerfull....

But what do i know... i'm just a fanboy...

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How about Rachael Leigh Cook? She looks a lot like Alita.

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How about using a Japanese girl "Aya Ueto" and leave the american women out of this.

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I think Ellen Page would defintely be my Alita.

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Hopefully someone who doesn't look like Alita. Little children with tits is very popular in japan but there's no way Cameron will use a lolita-like actress for the part.

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Actually, he will. He said he would cast a pre-adolescent actress. It was in one of interviews published on AICN.

Kick Ass has a 12 years old Hit Girl (played by Chloe Moretz) and new teenage assassin movie Hanna also has a 15 years old assassin (played by Saoirse Ronan). So Alita will be either a tween or a young teen. Depending on when the production begins, I wouldn`t count out either Moretz or Ronan to get the part.

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What the Hanna?!? Was it at all inspired by Luc Besson or Mathilda?!

Would you happen to have any... flan?
http://www.imdb.com/mymovies/list?l=194240

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