Weird, disturbing children’s films must be all the rage now – first we had the splendid CORALINE, and now we’ve got 9 on the horizon. If you’re not convinced you should be looking forward to a kiddie flick, just take a gander at the clip below. It’s really quite bizarre and, frankly, kick-ass.
9 comes from director Shane Acker and producers Tim Burton and Timur Bekmambetov, and it sports a pretty cool cast including Elijah Wood, John C. Reilly, Crispin Glover, Martin Landau, Christopher Plummer and Jennifer Connelly (pictured below). It comes out on 9/9/09 – naturally.
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 taking refuge from fearsome machines that roam the earth intent on their extinction. Despite being the neophyte of the group, 9 convinces the others that hiding will do them no good. They must take the offensive if they are to survive, and they must discover why the machines want to destroy them in the first place. As they’ll soon come to learn, the very future of civilization may depend on them.