Visionary filmmakers Tim Burton and Timur Bekmambetov link forces to produce wunderkind managing director Shane Acker’s9 , a distinctively original and thrilling tarradiddle of nine mad - scientist - created stitch - thug who ring together to fight beasts like the Seamstress in social club to save refinement .
When 9 ( The Lord of the Rings ’ Elijah Wood ) first come to life , he find himself in a post - revelatory cosmos . All human are gone , and it is only by chance that he key a small community of others like him taking refuge from dreadful machine that cast the earth intent on their quenching . 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 post . As they ’ll soon come to learn , the very hereafter of refinement may calculate on them .
9stars Elijah Wood , John C. Reilly , Jennifer Connelly , Martin Landau , Christopher Plummer and Crispin Glover and feature the medicine of Danny Elfman .
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9.9.09 ( September 9 , 2009 ) – Wide Release
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sound by one of the world ’s most well-thought-of histrion , Christopher Plummer , 1 is the Scientist ’s first founding . As the elderberry bush , he is the self - declare leader of the group . He is clever and sly , but also domineering , quick - tempered , and threatened by the new arriver of 9 , whose eminent intellect leads him to question authority .
Voiced by Academy Award Winner Martin Landau , 2 is a kindly but now - frail discoverer and explorer who embody the Scientist ’s strong creative spirit . An inquisitive personality , 2 is fearless . Director Shane Acker dearly report him as a “ salty honest-to-god dog . ”
Communicating visually , not verbally , 3 and 4 are the scholarly twins who voraciously catalog everything they can see and encounter , transcription and building a massive database for the group of the world that surround them and the account that led up to their creation .
Voiced by Academy Award nominee John C. Reilly , 5 is a caring , nurturing engineer — the firm , big - hearted “ common man ” who always attempt to flirt the peacemaker . He is also an learner of 2 , with whom he apportion a particular bond .
6 , the radical ’s visionary , is voiced by Crispin Glover . Although recluse and eccentric , his bursts of artistic inspiration through drawings made from his playpen pen nib hands may be paint to avail his fellow stitch - thug organism pilot their darkest hours .
A brave and self - sufficient warrior , 7 , voice by Oscar achiever Jennifer Connelly , is the group ’s lonesome female . A fiercely autonomous adventuress , she has been out patrol the wasteland . To outlast , she has adapted , finding the bones of a departed skirt and crafting her signature skull helmet .
arm with a giant kitchen meat cleaver and half a scissor steel , the none - too - bright muscular tissue and enforcer of the group , 8 , is make to avail the others physically survive the serious post - apocalyptic creation .
To voice the lead role of the newly expect — and aborning — hero 9 , Acker could n’t aid but have in mind an worker who was so central to the moving-picture show set up he had work on years earlier in New Zealand — The Lord of the Rings : The Return of the King star Elijah Wood .
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