An official prequel to the sci-fi film “Alita: Battle Angel,” based on the cult manga by Yukito Kishiro, from director Robert Rodriguez and producer James Cameron.
In a new world left behind after the Great War, everything has changed. In the shadow of the enormous city of Zalem, hanging in the sky, a megapolis has spread out where people live amid tons of garbage dumped from above. Crime thrives here; people fight for survival; biology and technology have fused together. Welcome to Iron City! Dr. Dyson Ido is a lonely medic repairing cyborgs and doing his best to help the residents of Iron City. But Ido leads a double life, because he can’t forget why he ended up down here, in the middle of this vast scrapyard. Hugo, a young man who makes ends meet with small thefts, thinks luck has finally smiled on him—but what appears to be a profitable scheme unexpectedly drags Hugo into the mysteries hidden in his own past. Vector, the most powerful businessman in the city, wants to seize a new technology that could give him unlimited power. None of them yet knows that their paths will soon intersect, and the world around them will change forever.