{"id":854,"date":"2008-03-18T19:20:56","date_gmt":"2008-03-19T02:20:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alertnerd.com\/blog\/?p=854"},"modified":"2008-03-18T19:20:56","modified_gmt":"2008-03-19T02:20:56","slug":"battle-angel-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/?p=854","title":{"rendered":"Battle Angel River"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Something occurred to me after seeing Summer Glau splashed all over umpteen katrillion billboards in honor of last weekend&#8217;s Wizard World LA: she should totally play <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Battle_Angel_Alita\">Battle Angel Alita<\/a>. Yes, this is pretty much another iteration of her River\/Cameron\/CrazyTess on <em>4400<\/em> 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&#8217;s facial trademarks.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure where, exactly, Cameron&#8217;s adaptation is at this point, except I&#8217;m guessing it&#8217;s back-burnered &#8217;til <em>Avatar<\/em> comes out. I do know that he apparently wants to make Alita\/Gally CG, but it sounds like they&#8217;d still need a &#8220;real&#8221; actress in the role (also, I&#8217;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 <em>Terminator<\/em> show&#8230;perhaps he will see the obvious potential!<\/p>\n<p>Of course, this is probably a bit like campaigning for Morena Baccarin to play Wonder Woman. Sigh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Something occurred to me after seeing Summer Glau splashed all over umpteen katrillion billboards in honor of last weekend&#8217;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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comics","category-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}