Zack Snyder is a busy these days, currently working on two films, “Sucker Punch” which will be a giant fanboy fetish fest as it’s going to be a bunch of (probably) scantily clad girls holding big phallic machine guns, and the horribly titled “Guardians of Ga’hoole” an Australian animated fantasy that will need a new title if it wants play anywhere in the world without garnering immature snickering.
The latter is already well into production, and slated for release on December 9th, 2010 in Australia by Snyder’s home team, Warner Brothers and Legendary Pictures. We can’t tell if the synopsis is corny or intriguing (or both) so we’ll let you figure that one out for yourself:
The film follows Soren, a young owl enthralled by his father’s epic stories of the Guardians of Ga’Hoole, a mythic band of winged warriors who had fought a great battle to save all of owlkind from the evil Pure Ones.
The voice casting for this thing is impressive. Sam Neill, Geoffrey Rush, Hugo Weaving and David Wenham are joining Emily Barclay, Abbie Cornish, Emilie de Ravin, Helen Mirren and Jim Sturgess. Not bad. Snyder’s work is largely cartoonish (see “Watchmen”) so maybe in an animated world free of a lot of suspension of disbelief issues, he’ll fare better.
There is no word yet on a North American release date, but we’d guess it will follow shortly after it hits screens down under. “Ga’hoole” hee hee hee.