I love Battle Angel! I'll say for sure that I'm skeptical of this movie but I'm excited to see what becomes of it.
Fun fact: In volume 2, there's a guy reading a newspaper which seems to be in Hebrew. I've sought out the Japanese version of the book just to see if it was also in Hebrew. Yes it was. Not only is that super weird, but it's even weirder considering The Junk Yard was built on the ruins of St. Louis..