Shane Acker's 9 Getting the Feature Treatment!

Now, this is fun news ...

While I saw a good number of dead solid films at the Worldwide Short Film Festival this year I've got to say that my favorite was Shane Acker's 9, a hugely distinctive post apocalyptic piece of animation. The thing's just amazing on pretty much every level. Well, evidently somebody out there with some money agrees ...

I just spotted over at Aint it Cool that Acker is now working on a feature version with no less than Tim Burton and the director of Russian blockbuster Night Watch on board as producers ... sweet ...

Hit Acker's site here for a stack of good stuff ...