Entertainment news magazine Variety reported on Tuesday that Leonard Wu (Marco Polo) is joining the cast of Alita: Battle Angel, James Cameron and Robert Rodriguez’s live-action film of Yukito Kishiro’s Battle Angel Alita (GUNNM) manga.
Set in the 26th century, Alita: Battle Angel tells of a female cyborg that is discovered in a trash yard by a scientist.
Wu will play Kinuba, a cyborg character who also appeared in the original manga.
Ed Skrein (The Transporter Refueled, Deadpool) as Zapan, “a villainous cyborg who is in possession of a weapon called the Damascus blade.”