City Of Ember Director To Adapt Airman With Producer Robert Zemeckis

City Of Ember Director To Adapt Airman With Producer Robert Zemeckis

By Russ Fischer/Oct. 20, 2009 7:06 am EST

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Variety reports that Gil Kenan, who last helmed City of Ember, is directing. I loved the production design and some of the world-building in City of Ember, but thought it was full of contrivances and uninteresting characters. So that could be a problem.

All of which, rendered in the Zemeckis motion-capture style, could actually be pretty cool. Just the other day I was relating that I was impressed by how far some of the animation had come in A Christmas Carol. If the same technique was applied to a story that is both new and adventurous in spirit, I’d be a lot more willing to play along than I am in the case of a too-familiar tale like A Christmas Carol.