Wow this looks fantastic! I was completely unaware of the original 2005 short that this new feature is based on.

The original 9 directed by Shane Acker was released way back in April of ‘05 and was nominated for an Academy Award. You can check this out below. Disregard the odd added sounds that somehow made it into to the beginning of this clip.

The new full length produced by Tim Burton and featuring the voice talents of Elijah Wood, John C. Reilly, Crispin Glover, and Jennifer Connelly will be released in September. I’m really looking forward to this. If the short is any indication, then this is going to be great. Here is the trailer:(extra points for using The Knife in it!)

Any Takashi Miike fans will want to check out a great interview that Twitch did with him recently.

“SA: Your films tend to have a very disjointed sense of humor. After making films that make excessive gore funny in a campy way, how difficult is it to take a superhero protagonist seriously?

TM: It wasn’t difficult at all. As a kid, I grew up watching the show and the sensibility and the humor of the show, which is quite wacky in itself, I think influenced the way I grew up as an adult. Not that Yatterman is everything but it did greatly influence how I grew up as an adult. Perhaps if I didn’t watch the show as a child, I would be a very different director now. That’s something that’s been ingrained in me as a person and a director. I don’t think there’s a big gap there.”

Read alot more over at TWITCHPreview, Rent and Buy Miike videos below!

Related Links:
I09 synopsis of the new Yatterman live action movie.
1977 opening for the original anime! Very cool.
Takashi Miike’s Imdb