Embargoed to the 14th February 2019 The official novelization to the highly anticipated science fiction movie, Alita: Battle Angel. In the twenty-sixth century, a female cyborg is rescued from the scrap heap by a scientist.The official novelization to the highly anticipated science fiction film Alita: Battle Angel, based on Yukito Kishiro's Battle Angel Alita manga, set to be released on July 20, 2018. The film is directed by Robert Rodriguez, written and produced by James Cameron ( Titanic, Avatar ) and stars Rosa Salazar, Christoph Waltz, Jennifer Connelly, Ed Skrein, Jackie Earle Haley and Mahershala Ali.