“James Cameron has been talking about making Battle Angel for so long that I can barely remember a time when it wasn’t totally his next movie after (insert James Cameron movie title here).

“Now that we’re getting it, the movie arrives in what is an incredibly challenging time for movies that aren’t based on an exceptionally well-known IP.

“Luc Besson’s Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets may have been based on a groundbreaking French comic book, and Andrew Stanton’s John Carter was based on the literary series that helped define modern sci-fi/fantasy tropes.

“But neither film clicked to the extent required for their copious production budgets.”

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