Right after I announced that Mark Millar’s Wanted is being produced, two members of the Wanted team (Bekmambetov-director and Lemley-producer) are announced to be working on 9, Shane Acker’s Oscar nominated animated short turned feature film. And we get a pile of casting news to boot! Its like dominoes kids!
Focus has tapped Elijah Wood to voice the character 9, the lead rag doll in Shane Acker’s post-apocalyptic toon of the same name.
Jennifer Connelly, Crispin Glover, Martin Landau and John C. Reilly also will lend their voices to the production, an expansion of Acker’s Academy Award-nominated short.
Scripted by Pamela Pettler, toon is being produced by Tim Burton, Timur Bekmambetov and Jim Lemley.
With news of a voice cast, it sounds like Acker’s 9 is going to be expanding a LOT. The otherwise mute characters found in his short will be given more life and personality in this production with voices.
This looks deliciously dark and say what you will about Tim Burton, but if he is involved in any way, you know its going to be dark. The style is epic and yet simplistic. The fantasy world of tiny little sockpuppet people and animated mechanicals living in this world that is not only post apocalyptic, but that they exist on a much smaller scale lends a LOT of originality. It is a beautiful film.
Check out the original short by clicking Here
