IMAX Corporation and Twentieth Century Fox announced on Tuesday that James Cameron 's upcoming Alita: Battle Angel live-action film, based on Yukito Kishiro 's Battle Angel Alita ( GUNNM ) manga, will screen in IMAX theaters worldwide.

Robert Rodriguez ( El Mariachi, Once Upon a Time in Mexico, Sin City, Spy Kids ) is set to direct the film. James Cameron and his Lightstorm Entertainment partner Jon Landau are producing the project, and Shutter Island's Laeta Kalogridis penned a script. The production crew aims to start filming this October in Austin. Fox has scheduled the film for a wide release on July 20, 2018.

The Hollywood Reporter described the film:

Set in the 26th century, Alita: Battle Angel tells of a female cyborg that is discovered in a trash yard by a scientist. With no memory of her previous life except her deadly martial arts training, the woman becomes a bounty hunter, tracking down criminals. The action-adventure story is meant to serve as a backdrop to themes of self-discovery and the search for love.

Kishiro's manga ran in Shueisha 's Business Jump magazine from 1990 to 1995, followed by the 1995-1996 prequel Ashen Victor and the single-volume GUNNM : Other Stories . 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. The newest manga, Gunnm: Kasei Senki ( Battle Angel Alita : The Martian War Chronicles), launched in Kodansha 's Evening magazine in 2014.

Source: Seeking Alpha