If it’s not enough to have the voice talents of Jennifer Connelly, Elijah Wood, Crispin Glover, John C. Reilly, Christopher Plummer and Martin Landau simply add Timur Bekmambetov and Tim Burton to the advertising to get my attention.
Shane Acker’s animated film 9 already sounded pretty cool: a post-apocalyptic nightmare in which all of humanity is threatened (in the apocalypse, isn’t humanity always threatened?), but when you add in those voice talents and the names of both Burton and Bekmambetov as producers, I can’t help but get excited at seeing the trailer. Talk about two directors with differing visions but one thing is for sure: both of them are very particular about the looks of their films so I’m assuming the same is true for this animated fare.
This trailer doesn’t disappoint. It doesn’t give you much but it’s certainly eye catching and has me wondering how I ever missed this announcement. Acker’s full feature is adapted from his short film of the same title which was both nominated for an Academy Award in 2005 and won a SIGGRAPH Best in Show Prize (if you’ve seen any of the SIGGRAPH stuff, you know this is a pretty huge deal). The full feature was animated in Luxembourg by Attitude Studio and though I’m not familiar with any of their work, their showreels are pretty impressive.
9 is scheduled to open September 9, 2009.
Trailer is tucked under the seat or in impressive HD over at Apple.
