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He’s the reason the film has been put on hold
With Arnold Schwarzenegger recently signing on for a second term as the Governator, cinema audiences assumed he’d never ‘be back’.
Not so, according to an insider for TheArnoldFans.com, who suggests that James Cameron is ‘waiting’ for the Austrian Oak before he starts filming the long gestating film version of Manga’s “Battle Angel Alita”.
Schwarzenegger has long been rumoured – granted, the film has been on the drawing board for about a decade or so – for the role of the Cyborg ‘Ido’ in the film, which tells of an amnesiac female cyborg.
According to the insider, that is still the plan – Schwarzenegger as Ido.
“James Cameron really wants Arnold for the cyborg role of Ido”, says the source, adding that if it means the film has to be put on hold for a couple of years, at which time Schwarzenegger would/could be available again, they’ll do that.
Originally, Cameron was going to shoot “Battle Angel Alita” as his next film, but recently changed his mind and started prepping “Avatar”.
With an estimated budget of $200 million, “Alita” shoot the film in stereoscopic digital 3-D with a cast almost entirely composed of animated CG, using an improved “performance capture” technique similar to what was first used by director Robert Zemeckis in “The Polar Express”.
Thanks to ‘AB King’
