Elijah Wood recently dished about an upcoming project titled “9” that will be based on a short silent film by Shane Acker. We get the following interview scoop thanks to our friends at MTV:
Tim Burton is producing the full-length feature from Acker, one of the WETA Digital animators on “Return of the King,” and Crispin Glover, Jennifer Connelly, John C. Reilly, Martin Landau, and Christopher Plummer are among the other voice actors. Wood plays 9, one of nine mechanized rag dolls, “who kind of have the soul of humanity in them,” he said. “It’s basically about a post-apocalyptic world where machines created by man have destroyed mankind, and these nine ragdolls go about trying to find out what has happened and what these machines are about.”
In the worldless short film version, two of the ragdolls — 9 and 5 — are scavenging for items when they encounter and must fight one of the ramshackle machine monsters, whose head is a skull, limbs are metal, and torso made out of the burlap hide of ragdolls it’s already killed.
A post Apocalyptic film where robots are the only ones left to investigate what happened is right up my alley. Add to the fact that Tim Burton is producing and I can safely tell you that this is now on my radar in a big way.
A ramshackle enemy that collects the parts of his bested foes unto himself is incredible. This is the robot version of a cannibal and the look is completed with the wearing of the skull. I cannot wait to see this villainous Lhurgoyf robot grow stronger as he pilfers parts from his fallen foes.
9 we just met and already I want to have your baby. Give me a cyborg uterus so I may carry your children to term.
Edit: I have added the original Short here for your viewing enjoyment!
