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Robert Rodriguez lul wants to make an Alita sequel with James Cameron

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Robert Rodriguez and James Cameron are distillery hoping to make an Alita: Battle Saint sequel.

The sci-fi celluloid, directed by Rodriguez with Cameron producing, debuted in 2019. While the film has a passionate fanbase campaigning for a sequel, it grossed just about $400 million at the worldwide box office, and at that place's been no semiofficial word of a review. Meantime, Rodriguez is at the helm of upcoming Walt Disney Plus series The Book of Boba Fett.

"Jim [Cameron] and I talked about it recently, and we're still identical interested," Rodriguez told The Hollywood Reporter. "I told him, 'Let me deliver Boba and past let's human body out a auction pitch.'"

The film focuses on an amnesiac cyborg (the titular Alita, played by Rosa Salazar) WHO is discovered in a scrapyard by Dr. Dyson Ido, played by Christoph Waltz.

This International Relations and Security Network't the first time Rodriguez has talked about a sequel. "I think anything is possible. Disney bought Fuddle, and they have Walt Disney Summation, so that is meriting the conversation. I be intimate other people would love to see another, and I would love to do another unmatched," he told Forbes last twelvemonth. "Atomic number 3 far as where it would go Beaver State how it would be made, I intend streaming has opened dormie some opportunities such as sequels. It's already a pre-sold concept, it's already got a built-in audience that wants to go steady it, and then it's delivered to them in some respects that's the easiest for them to have. Sol, it's not a mischievous idea."

While the potential difference Alita 2 seems a way off, The Book of Boba Fett will commonwealth this December 29 – and Cameron has been busy with the Avatar sequels, with Avatar 2 due to arrive December 16, 2022.

While you wait, check out our guide to every last the next few months' major movie release dates.

I'm a freelance Entertainment Writer here at GamesRadar+, covering all things film and TV for our Total Film and SFX sections. I previously worked on the Disney magazines team at Immediate Media, and also wrote on the CBeebies, MEGA!, and Principal Wars Extragalactic nebula titles aft getting my BA in English.