Glover And Connelly Bring 9 Total To 6

Aint it Cool are telling me that Crispin Glover and Jennifer Connelly have joined the voice cast for Shane Acker's 9. That's in addition to the four fellows we named for you in February: Elijah Wood, Martin Landau, John C Reilly and Christopher Plummer. Well done Acker.

4 For 9

Produced by Tim Burton and Timur Bekmambetov, Shane Acker's 9 is likely to be one of the more distinctive animated films of the coming year or so. Based on Acker's short, from which I've taken the images above (go on - click on them, they're huge and very detailed) the feature-length expansion is currently being animated in Luxembourg by Attitude Studios.

Anybody who has seen the original short 9 will know that none of the characters talk - however, this isn't to be the case in the feature version. Speaking to Cartoon Brew's Amid Amidi at an Animation Show Q&A, Acker announced the four lead voice actors and they were Christopher Plummer, Martin Landau, Elijah Wood and John C. Reilly.

A superb roster. I don't know if Acker has the storytelling chops to sustain a complex narrative over feature length but he's certainly very strong on the atmospherics.