Pre-FAIL senses tingling!

CAUTION: FAIL IS IMMINENT!

Producer Jon Landau, who worked with James Cameron on Avatar, spilled new details about the duo's next franchise, based on scifi manga Battle Angel Alita. The movie will focus on the robot warrior Alita's early life among cyborg roller-gladiators.

Sorry, but I don't remember Gunm starting that way; I remember Dr. Ido finding her torso in The Junkyard under Tiphares. Then -- after some other, intervening cybernetic bodies -- she became a motorballer.

But then I've actually read some of the manga and seen some of the anime. For the love of Raptorjeebus, Landau and Cameron, why so FAILish?

Found with palpable sorrow on io9.