3/31/2021 0 Comments Alita Cast And Crew
But making it my own would be, I didnt want him at the end of the day, looking at this and thinking, I knew I should have made this myself.Last month, WorthPlaying had the chance to participate in a panel interview with the cast and crew of the upcoming film, Alita: Battle Angel.
![]() Q: Robert, youve had a varied career with films like From Dusk Till Dawn, which is very adult-oriented, and Spy Kids, which is very family-oriented. Youre bringing it to a new generation for both longtime fans and fans with children. What was the challenge in adapting the story to ensure that you were striking a balance between action and family-friendly Robert Rodriguez: Right, this is my first PG-13 movie, which Ive always wanted to do. I did things for really small kids cause I knew they shouldnt be watching Desperado. Id have a heart attack when parents say, Oh, we took our kids to see Desperado. So Im going to make something just for them that has that kind of action or more action-type, R-rated stuff. This is more in line with the movies that Jim Cameron does, which Ive always been a fan of Titanic and Avatar. This is a project that he was going to do, and when I read his script and his vision for it, it was the first time Id read something that I felt I could do in that range, where small children to grandparents could watch it. Its what you would call a four-quadrant story because it has such wide, universal appeal. Jim does that best. He can even find that in a manga that you might think plays older, he found a storyline that really appealed to him, and he added more to it to really make it something that could play like a very universal story about this little girl found in a trash heap who thinks shes insignificant and finds out that she has the inner power to actually change the world. You can see why he wanted to make that himself, when he makes his own material all the time, why hed be attracted to that graphic novel, what did he see in it It made me curious. When I saw what he was doing, I responded to it tremendously and thought it would be a great project to do and learn from him. I tend to do things that are really whimsical and kind of dream imagery, like youre just having a weird dream. His is very much, very grounded, very real, sci-fi is more like science fact the way he approaches it, so you believe the flights of fancy. So I was really into the idea of trying something really new with this project, knowing I had my own Terminator near me and a second one to help guide me if I was steering off course. Q: Because James Cameron was developing this for so long, once you got a hold of it, was there a close collaboration between you two, or did he just let you do your own thing RR: He really wanted me to make it my own, but he knew that the reason I even thought I could take it on because he saw what I did with Sin City, which I took and really made it true to Frank Millers work. Thats why I called the movie Frank Millers Sin City because I wanted people to know that was his. So, he knew that I wanted to make a Jim Cameron movie because this is the lost Jim Cameron movie that me and the rest of us got robbed from seeing because Avatar was too successful. We wanted to see that movie, so I was going to help get that movie made the way he would as close as I can get. You never can make it really Jim Cameron, but at least I wouldnt make the kind of steps that Id normally do. I would ask him questions all the time, and he would send me answers, but he was always, Make it your own, make it your own.
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