An action-packed adventure, director
Shane Acker's animated fantasy epic “
9″ is the feature-length expansion of his Academy Award-nominated 2004 short film of the same name. The screenplay for the feature is by
Pamela Pettler and directors
Tim Burton and
Timur Bekmambetov are among the feature version's producers.
The time is the too-near future. Powered and enabled by the invention known as the Great Machine, the world's machines have turned on mankind and sparked social unrest, decimating the human population before being largely shut down. But as our world fell to pieces, a mission began to salvage the legacy of civilization; a group of small creations was given the spark of life by a scientist in the final days of humanity, and they continue to exist postapocalypse.
When 9 (
Elijah Wood) first comes to life, he finds himself in a post-apocalyptic world. All humans are gone, and it is only by chance that he discovers a small community of others
like him.
The group of 9 rag dolls includes “1″ (voiced by
Christopher Plummer), a domineering war veteran, “2″ (
Martin Landau), an aged inventor, “3 & 4″ – twins – strange dolls, unable to speak, curious but very shy, “5″ (
John C. Reilly), healer, mentor, great engineer and inventor, “6″ (
Crispin Glover), a wild and impulsive visionary and artist, “7″ (
Jennifer Connelly) a group's sole female, a brave and self-sufficient warrior and “9″ (Elijah Wood) good-hearted, thoughtful, and sincere. He will easily risk his own life to save others.
“9″ film opens the theaters on 09/9/09.
