Entertainment news source The Hollywood Reporter revealed on Wednesday that actor Christoph Waltz (Inglourious Basterds, Django Unchained, Spectre, The Legend of Tarzan) “is in early negotiations” to star in James Cameron’s Alita: Battle Angel, the planned live-action film of Yukito Kishiro’s Battle Angel Alita (GUNNM) manga.
The newest manga, Gunnm: Kasei Senki (Battle Angel Alita: The Martian War Chronicles), launched in Kodansha’s Evening magazine in 2014.
Alita: Battle Angel tells of a female cyborg that is discovered in a trash yard by a scientist.
The story continued in 2001 with the partial retelling Battle Angel Alita: Last Order, which moved to Kodansha’s Evening magazine as the result of an issue between Kishiro and Shueisha’s Ultra Jump magazine.