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Men in an urgent evening meeting, working on laptops with a city skyline in the background and a whiteboard reading 'Deadline: Urgent Rewrites'.

Men in an urgent evening meeting, working on laptops with a city skyline in the background and a whiteboard reading 'Deadline: Urgent Rewrites'.

According to the reports the story was planned to be told in two films, but when Fox executives learned in 2017 of Disney's intent to purchase the company, they abruptly decided to only make it one film. This came just two months before pre-production finished and when the two-part script was already written, so it had to be rewritten in a hurry to compress everything into a single film. It was also planned to be released in a season other than summer because it was designed more as a psychological character study than a summer blockbuster. Filming went smoothly, but once Fox executives got to see a rough cut, they and Kinberg agreed that the film needed extensive reshoots. Unfortunately, the reshoots didn't occur for over a year since Fox had to renegotiate many of the actors' contracts. It was during this time that Rupert Murdoch, having grown disillusioned with the trend of media consolidation, formally decided to sell Fox and its entertainment assets to Disney, which owned Marvel Comics and would no doubt move to put the characters in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Since the deal wouldn't be finalized for nearly a year-and-a-half, Fox was forced to continue on with the film. The reshoots ended up resulting in the film moving up its release date by several months. All this was happening as the marketing campaign was rolling out. Then things went to hell. James Cameron, who was writing and producing Alita: Battle Angel for Fox, complained that his film was scheduled to Ver más