9 Movie Trailer #2

One of the /Film Twitter followers pointed out that 2009 will see the release of more than a couple movies with the number 9 in the title:  Rob Marshall's musical Nine, the Peter Jackson-produced sci-fi film District 9, the Australian stop-animated $9.99, a Melissa Joan Hart thriller Nine Dead, and Shane Acker's 9.

G4's Attack of the Show has premiered a new trailer for 9, a computer animated film produced by Tim Burton and Timur Bekmambetov (Wanted, Nightwatch), directed by former WETA Digital artist Shane Acker, and featuring the music of Danny Elfman. Based on Acker's Academy Award-nominated 2005 film festival short (watch it on YouTube), 9 is a post-apocalyptic nightmare in which all of humanity is threatened. Watch the new trailer after the jump.

The official plot synopsis follows:

"When 9 (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."

The group includes 1 (Christopher Plummer), a domineering war veteran; 2 (Martin Landau), an aged inventor; 5 (John C. Reilly), a stalwart mechanic; 6 (Crispin Glover), a visionary and artist; and 7 (Jennifer Connelly), a brave warrior. I like Acker's unique art style which could be described as a darker/post apocalyptic version of what Tim Burton use to do, with a touch of LittleBigPlanet. Leave your thoughts in the comments below.

9 hits theaters on 9.9.09.