Movie Make-out

Thanks in part to Tim Burton and Wanted director Timur Bekmambetov, writer-director Shane Acker and Attitude Studio have expanded Acker’s Academy Awards-nominted animated short 9 into a feature-length film, telling the story of a “rag doll” character who fights a monster that has stolen the rest of his people’s souls — sort of a tired action-adventure plot, to be frank, but the visuals from this trailer are anything but.

Elijah Wood, Christopher Plummer, Martin Landau, John C. Reilly, Jennifer Connelly and Crispin Glover lend their voices to the feature film, which is due out on 9/9/09 (that’s September, to you numerically challenged folks like me).

You can watch a blurry version of the original 9 short over at YouTube. (Thanks for the heads up, H2P.)