Could 'Alita' be Hollywood’s breakthrough manga movie?

Alita’s doll-like eyes reflect the look she had in the novel that the movie is based on. — Twentieth Century Fox

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.