Wood lends voice to Acker animation
Connelly, Glover, Reilly also cast for cartoon
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Jennifer Connelly, Crispin Glover, Martin Landau and John C. Reilly also will lend their voices to the production, an expan-sion of Acker's Academy Award-nominated short.
Scripted by Pamela Pettler, toon is being produced by Tim Burton, Timur Bekmambetov and Jim Lemley.
Besides Wood's 9, the rag doll community includes a domineering war veteran (Christopher Plummer), an aged inventor (Landau), brave warrior (Connelly), mechanic (Reilly) and visionary (Glover). Each character goes by a numeral.
Besides the Oscar nomination, Acker's "9" short won the gold medal at the student Academy Awards and animated film hon-ors at the 2005 Comic-Con.
Bekmambetov and Lemley also are teamed on "Wanted," Universal's live-action adaptation of a graphic novel. Bekmambetov will direct the Angelina Jolie starrer, and Lemley is producing along with Marc Platt, Jason Netter and Iain Smith (Daily Variety, March 20).
