Alita: Battle Angel: Book vs. Movie
Robert Rodriguez's Alita: Battle Angel (2019) adapts Yukito Kishiro's manga series Battle Angel Alita. Rosa Salazar plays a cyborg whose lost memories begin to surface as she discovers her abilities in Iron City.
About the book and the movie
- Author
- Yukito Kishiro
- Year
- 1990
- Pages
- 248Buy book
In the Scrapyard beneath the floating city of Zalem, cybernetic doctor Daisuke Ido discovers the remains of a girl and gives her a new mechanical body. Named Alita, she cannot remember her past, but fighting awakens skills she does not understand. This manga series follows her search for an identity amid bounty hunters, brutal competition and the divide between the two cities.
- Director
- Robert Rodriguez
- Writer
- Robert Rodriguez, Laeta Kalogridis
- Year
- 2019
- Runtime
- 2 hr 2 minWatch on Amazon
- Cast
- Rosa Salazar, Christoph Waltz, Jennifer Connelly, Mahershala Ali
- Genre
- action, cyberpunk, dystopian, post-apocalyptic fiction, science fiction
- IMDb
- View on IMDb
Rebuilt by a doctor in Iron City, Alita explores life in a body whose combat abilities seem to know more about her past than she does. Her friendship with Hugo draws her toward the city's streets and its violent sport, Motorball, while Ido tries to keep her safe. Powerful figures take an interest in the technology she carries.
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