Since a chunk of her screen time as Jubilee in X-Men: Apocalypse hit the cutting room floor, Lana Condor will no doubt be hoping for more of a chance to shine in Alita: Battle Angel She's joined the cast of Robert Rodriguez and James Cameron's sci-fi manga adaptation.
A passion project of Cameron's for years now, it's finally starring to shoot with Rodriguez in the director's chair. Cameron is producing, and wrote the script alongside regular collaborator Laeta Kalogridis. The story adapts Yukito Kishiro's original manga. Battle Angel Alita (as it was called in print and anime form) and follows an amnesiac female cyborg in the 26th century who becomes a bounty hunter, after being rescued from the rubbish dump and rebuilt by a professor of cybernetics. Rosa Salazar is on board to play Alita, while Christoph Waltz will be the professor.
Condor will play Koyomi in the film, a young orphaned teen who, in the manga at least, has connections to several characters. She joins a cast that also includes Jackie Earle Haley, Eisa Gonzalez and Ed Skrein.
Alita: Battle Angel is set for a 20 July, 2018 release, but before that, Condor will be seen in Patriots Day, due out on 27 January.