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Landau says the following: "What I think the Alita Army should do is keep peppering our family now at Disney and [let them know] how important it is to have another Alita movie and hopefully we'll venture there one day." So if your best case scenario involves being loud and holding out hope, that doesn't inspire confidence.
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It doesn't matter that JJ got to revisit the ideas he had five years prior, because he wasn't planning on using those ideas anyway. Rian did his own thing. Colin was going to do his own thing. Disney didn't like Colin's thing, so they ditched him and brought back JJ, who, being put on a tight clock to produce this film, resorted to unused concepts from TFA. JJ doesn't get bonus points for 'planning everything from the start' when neither of the directors chosen to follow him up were going to use that blueprint.
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On Palps returning: "Well, when you look at this as nine chapters of a story, perhaps the weirder thing would be if Palpatine didn’t return... But when Larry Kasdan and I worked on The Force Awakens, we didn’t do it in a vacuum... So there were discussions about that at the time... And then when Rian was brought on to do The Last Jedi, we met and we talked about things and he wrote his story. And when I read it the script, I realized this didn’t get in the way of anything Larry and I talked about that I thought I’d get to." I love how JJ planned to eventually bring Palps back, despite not committing to the franchise beyond TFA, and letting Rian & Colin do whatever they please. We know Colin wasn't going to use Palps, he said so last week. So JJ is completely talking about his ass when he says Palps returning was "the plan" from TFA.
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Regarding the budget, given the very nature of the movie (people are cats), every single frame needs CGI. Every single character on screen at all times will be CGI'd. That's not going to be cheap. Even the past two Avengers films had a couple scenes that didn't need special effects. Additionally, filming only wrapped back in April, and there were reports a few weeks ago that the film wouldn't be ready for early December awards screenings, so clearly the studio has been rushing to get the effects finished. And rushing to finish effects involves throwing more money at the problem. So while I highly doubt it's as high as the reported $300m figure, I would not be surprised at all to learn that the budget is over $200m.