{"id":91867,"date":"2016-10-12T09:41:02","date_gmt":"2016-10-12T08:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=91867"},"modified":"2016-10-12T09:41:02","modified_gmt":"2016-10-12T08:41:02","slug":"alita-battle-angel-movie-adds-x-men-apocalypse-actor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/alita-battle-angel-movie-adds-x-men-apocalypse-actor\/","title":{"rendered":"Alita Battle Angel movie adds X Men Apocalypse actor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Among the things we found the most disappointing about <em><strong>X<\/strong><strong><em>&#8211;<\/em>Men: Apocalypse<\/strong> <\/em>was the lack of Jubilee. Despite the prominence of actress Lana Condor in the promotional material in the build-up to its cinematic release, ultimately many of her scenes were left on the cutting-room floor, and her role ended up being a fairly peripheral one. Some of her deleted scenes survive, but still: it&#8217;s not the same.<\/p>\n<p>However, it looks like Condor will hopefully get more time to shine, as she has just been cast in Robert Rodriguez&#8217; <em><strong>Alita: Battle Angel<\/strong> <\/em>movie as Koyomi K, described as \u201can orphaned teen with connections to several characters\u201d, who in Yukito Kishiro&#8217;s original manga grows up in the scrapyard where the cyborg Alita is discovered. Sure, it&#8217;s another supporting role, but hopefully she&#8217;ll get more time to shine than she did in Apocalypse.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_91878\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-91878\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-91878 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Xmen-Apocalypse-Jubilee.jpg\" alt=\"xmen-apocalypse-jubilee\" width=\"1000\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Xmen-Apocalypse-Jubilee.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Xmen-Apocalypse-Jubilee-600x300.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Xmen-Apocalypse-Jubilee-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Xmen-Apocalypse-Jubilee-768x384.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Xmen-Apocalypse-Jubilee-616x308.jpg 616w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-91878\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lana Condor as Jubilee in X-Men: Apocalypse.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>She joins a cast that already includes Rosa Salazar (<em><strong>Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials<\/strong><\/em>) as Alita, Mahershala Ali (<strong><em>The Hunger Games: Mockingjay<\/em><\/strong>) as Vector, Ed Skrein (<em><strong>Deadpool<\/strong><\/em>) as Zapan, Christoph Waltz (<em><strong>Django Unchained<\/strong><\/em>) as Dr Dyson Ido, Keean Johnson (<em><strong>Nashville<\/strong><\/em>) as Hugo and Jackie Earle Haley (<em><strong>Watchmen<\/strong><\/em>) in an unspecified role, with Robert Rodriguez (<em><strong>Sin City<\/strong><\/em>) directing from a script penned by James Cameron (<em><strong>Avatar<\/strong><\/em>) and Laeta Kalogridis (<em><strong>Shutter Island<\/strong><\/em>).<\/p>\n<p>You can read the synopsis for <em><strong>Alita: Battle Angel<\/strong> <\/em>below:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cSet in the 26th century, <strong>Alita <\/strong>tells of a female cyborg (Salazar) that is discovered in a scrapyard by a scientist. With no memory of her previous life except her deadly martial-arts training, the woman becomes a bounty hunter, tracking down criminals. The action-adventure story is meant to serve as a backdrop to themes of self-discovery and the search for love.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Alita: Battle Angel<\/em> will be released in cinemas on 20 July 2018. For all the latest movie news, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imagineshop.co.uk\/scifinow-issue-124.html\">pick up the new issue of SciFiNow.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hopefully she&#8217;ll have a bigger role in Alita: Battle Angel<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":91877,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[2615,3],"tags":[5386],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/battle-angel-alita.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91867"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}