Battle Angel River

Battle Angel River

Mar 18

Something occurred to me after seeing Summer Glau splashed all over umpteen katrillion billboards in honor of last weekend’s Wizard World LA: she should totally play Battle Angel Alita. Yes, this is pretty much another iteration of her River/Cameron/CrazyTess on 4400 character, but I am OK with that. She does that powerful young gal thing well and this could be the part where mainstream-type people actually start noticing. Plus, she kind of naturally has that adorably constant lip-pursey thing that is one of Alita/Gally’s facial trademarks.

I’m not sure where, exactly, Cameron’s adaptation is at this point, except I’m guessing it’s back-burnered ’til Avatar comes out. I do know that he apparently wants to make Alita/Gally CG, but it sounds like they’d still need a “real” actress in the role (also, I’d like to momentarily argue against making her all CG, because CG people still look fucking creepy). Cameron must have already witnessed a bit of what Summer can do since she plays a character named after him on the Terminator show…perhaps he will see the obvious potential!

Of course, this is probably a bit like campaigning for Morena Baccarin to play Wonder Woman. Sigh.