Teaser Trailer for Tim Burton's CGI Animated '9'
Now this one is worth a second look... and perhaps a third...
Apple has debuted the trailer for the computer animated feature 9 from Focus Features starring the voice talent of Elijah Wood, Jennifer Connelly, Crispin Glover, Martin Landau, Christopher Plummer, John C. Reilly and directed by Shane Acker based on his Oscar-nominate short from 2005 (watch to the right). Tim Burton's name is all over it because he is presenting and producing it along with Wanted helmer Timur Bekmambetov.
The film takes place in a world parallel to our own, in which the very legacy of humanity is threatened. A community of fully mobile rag dolls living a post-apocalyptic existence find one of their own, 9 (Wood), displaying leadership qualities that may help them to survive. The conflicted but resilient community includes 1 (Plummer), a domineering war veteran; 2 (Landau), an aged inventor; 5 (Reilly), a stalwart mechanic; 6 (Glover), a visionary and artist; and 7 (Connelly), a brave warrior.
This trailer actually caught my attention and that is saying something since I am just about tired of Burton's quirky animated features. The combination of Burton and Bekmambetov together on a project neither of them created really seems about right and the trailer has that familiar look of Burton, which I am sure is what attracted him, and the sound and attitude of Bekmambetov. Since it all comes from Acker as a new face in the game I am quite intrigued.
Check out the trailer below or in high definition at Apple and see what you think. 9 hits theaters on September 9… Get it… 9-9-09… Wheee!
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This looks great, totally going to see it. Can anyone name that song in the teaser? Or is it original music for the trailer?
Thanks.
@TPJR:
the song is "Coming Home" by Coheed and Cambria (its on the 1st rock band)
looks to be good!
@joker47: Thanks alot.
actualy its Cheed & Cambria – Welcome Home
:)
check it in youtube it's there ;)
Looks interesting. Even though I don't like the song, it does work for the trailer.
Wow. I hope they make a sweet video game to go with it. The only thing I could think about during the trailer was, I want to play this!
It looks like a video game, one of the better games…
Isn't this going to get mixed up with the movie version of the Broadway musical "Nine" ?
This looks like a mixture of recent videogames slapped up into a movie. LittleBigPlanet, Fallout 3 and Gears of War are the ones that come to mind.
@TPJR: Actually its Welcome Home by Coheed and Cambria. Amazing band, check em out. this movie looks amazing too.
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