A surprising team-up between master cinema craftsman James Cameron and exploitation auteur Robert Rodriguez, 2019's Alita: Battle Angel is perhaps Cameron's most under-seen project (aside from his debut, Piranha II: The Spawning). It also happens to be a supremely underrated slice of cyberpunk/fantasy cinema nirvana. The film, based on a 1990s manga series by Yukito Kishiro, was a passion project of Cameron's as far back as summer 2000, according to contemporaneous reporting. And while Cameron co-wrote and produced the film, when it came to directing, he was buried up to his neck with his monumental Avatar series, so it fell on Rodriguez to finally bring the master's vision to the screen.
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