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“Alita: Battle Angel” Trailers, Featurettes, Movie Clips, Interviews, Music

Directed by Robert Rodriguez, Alita: Battle Angel vision from not only Rodriguez but from filmmaker James Cameron. The movie is an epic tale about adventure, hope, and empowerment.

The movie clip is so cool to watch,  yet you can see the CGI happening when and where. Still, Alita is dynamite.

Alita, played by Rosa Salazar, awakens with no memory of who she is in a future world she does not recognize. Ido, played by Christoph Waltz, takes care of her as a compassionate doctor who realizes that somewhere in this abandoned cyborg shell is the heart and soul of a young woman. 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, played by Keean Johnson, offers instead to help trigger her memories.

She soon discovers a clue to her past when the deadly and corrupt forces that run the city come after her. She finds out about her unique fighting abilities, and those in power will stop at nothing to control her abilities. 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.

The next trailer shows more of the story and what happens in the movie.

Directed by Robert Rodriguez, Alita: Battle Angel vision from not only Rodriguez but from filmmaker James Cameron.

The latest trailer shows more of the story and how she regains her superpowers.

The latest poster of Alita Rose is so cool and Gothic looking. 

The Blu-ray, DVD, and streaming are available for those who missed it in the theater or want to see it again.  The 4K format includes 3D. 

The featurette praises Rosa Salazar’s work on camera, and they talk about the source for the movie.

The next movie clip shows Alita practicing her martial arts moves in front of a mirror. It appears she is starting to recall her past. She is realizing that she is one strong force to be reckoned.

I like the underworld, Borg-guy’s line “Dance little flea!”

The movie clip is very cool to watch and the CGI is amazing.

The featurette shares all the secrets of how they filmed the animated version of Alita. We hear from all the techies, including James Cameron, who envisioned her and the technology while making Avatar.

The 30 second commercial aired before the Superbowl kick-off. That cost the studio so pretty dollars. The TV spot shows a lot for such a short amount of time – the cast is stellar.

James Cameron articulates the story about Alita. He illuminates on how he enjoyed writing the screenplay with her in mind. The difficulty in finding flaws in Alita because she has no fear. He talks about working with Rodriguez and trying to get him to take the movie and make it his own.

Rodriguez talks about working with Cameron and wanting to make a Cameron movie. He has a tremendous amount of respect for Cameron and clearly wants to emulate his vision and talent.

Here is the star of the movie Rosa Salazar talking about Alita at the LA premiere.

The next two clips are a featurette and a movie clip about Motorball. The sport is part of the movie, and the featurette shows how the production brought it to the movie clip.

The next featurette is all about Alita. Who is she?

The music composer for Alita: Battle Angel, Junkie XL, song writing is amazing and it’s so cool to hear how he creates the movie for Alita and key scenes in the movie.

“The Dark Tower” Trailer and Clips

Directed by Nikolaj Arcel, I have not read many Stephen King’s books, so I am not familiar with The Dark Tower storyline or whether it follows the book at all.

Though, I am intrigued to see a young boy telling a story to a therapist of some sort. There are some talented people behind the camera and in front of the camera as well. Ron Howard is one of the producers.

The story follows a gunslinger, played by Idris Elba,  and we are told there are other worlds than these, which is not that ambitious these days.  Other worlds are quite common in the movie industry.

Still, it is an expansive story from one of the world’s most celebrated authors, and now it is headed to the big screen.  So, the last Gunslinger, known as Roland Deschain, has been locked in an eternal battle with Walter O’Dim, also known as the Man in Black, played by Matthew McConaughey, determined to prevent him from toppling the Dark Tower, which holds the universe together. With the fate of the worlds at stake, good and evil will collide in the ultimate battle as only Roland can defend the Tower from the Man in Black.

Also in the cast is Jackie Earle Haley, who is fondly known for playing Freddy Krueger in the Nightmare on Elm Street franchise movies.

It really sounds like dark fantasy where kids tell the story late a night during a sleepover.  I sure it will do well at the box office because King has a legion of fans.