According to the Hollywood Reporter, director James Cameron may be vacillating in his determination to bring a live action version of Yukito Kishiro's Battle Angel Alita to the silver screen.  Cameron, who hasn't made a non-documentary feature film since helming all-time box office champ Titanic in 1997, was supposed to start filming Battle Angel Alita in December (see 'James Cameron To Make Battle Angel Alita'), but according to the Reporter he is also preparing a 'parallel' project, known only as Project 880.  While he has reportedly spent a lot of time on a Battle Angel Alita script by Laeta Kalogridis (Alexander), Cameron may decide to film Project 880 first.

Whichever film he does decide to make, Cameron plans to shoot it in high definition digital 3-D in spite of the poor reviews for the technology employed by director Robert Rodriguez in the current Shark Boy and Lava Girl kids' flick.  Rodriguez used Cameron's modified 3-D cameras but adapted the film to the old 'red and green' glasses method for playback during postproduction.  Cameron plans on using a digital 3-D method, which he and George Lucas and Robert Zemeckis effused over at the recent ShoWest conference (see 'Star Wars in 3D') -- but that requires that theaters have digital projection equipment, which few do at this time.