Alita: Battle Angel is 2019 live-action 20th Century Fox film adapting the manga series Gunnm created by Yukito Kishiro.
When Alita (Rosa Salazar) awakens with no memory of who she is in a future world she does not recognize, she is taken in by Ido (Christoph Waltz), a compassionate doctor who realizes that somewhere in this abandoned cyborg shell is the heart and soul of a young woman with an extraordinary past. As Alita learns to navigate her new life and the treacherous streets of Iron City, Ido tries to shield her from her mysterious history while her street-smart new friend Hugo (Keean Johnson) offers instead to help trigger her memories. But it is only when the deadly and corrupt forces that run the city come after Alita that she discovers a clue to her past -- she has unique fighting abilities that those in power will stop at nothing to control. If she can stay out of their grasp, she could be the key to saving her friends, her family and the world she's grown to love.
Jennifer Connelly, Mahershala Ali, Ed Skrein and Jackie Earle Haley also star.
Robert Rodriguez (Sin City) directed the film from a script by James Cameron and Laeta Kalogridis.
The film was greeted with positive reviews, but underperformed at the box office. The movie was clearly designed to be the first in a franchise.
