WELLINGTON, New Zealand --- The manga movie "Alita: Battle Angel" has been 20 years in the making, and producer Jon Landau thinks it will finally represent the breakthrough success in Hollywood for a genre which has proved problematic. "I think this is definitely the breakthrough one because of the story that Kishiro wrote," said Landau, referring to Japanese author Yukito Kishiro, who wrote the graphic novels, or manga, upon which the movie is based. "You know, other mangas that have not worked have been very Asian-centric in their world, and in their stories," Landau said. "And Kishiro wrote a melting-pot world. He didn't write a central character that was Asian. He...
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