The trio responsible for 2002's computer-animated feature "Ice Age" — 20th Century Fox, Blue Sky Studios and director Chris Wedge– announced last night in NYC that they're teaming up again to create another CGI film, "Robots." Release is slated for March, 2005. Confirmed voices on board includes Halle Berry, Ewan McGregor, Mel Brooks, and Drew Carey.
Mattel, Burger King, Kellogg's, Keebler, Hewlett-Packard, HarperCollins and Vivendi Universal Games have signed on as promotional partners for the film's release. Set in a world composed entirely of robots — designed by William Joyce ("Rolie Polie Olie") — the Lowell Ganz- and Babaloo Mandel-scripted project centers on Rodney Copperbottom (McGregor), a young genius inventor who dreams of making the world a better place. Berry voices Cappy, a sexy executive rebot with whom Rodney is instantly smitten. Other lead voices include the nefarious corporate tyrant Ratchet (yet to be cast), who locks horns with Rodney, and Big Weld (Brooks), a master inventor who has lost his way. Other characters include a group of misfit robots known as the Rusties.
Update: the movie's official url hasn't been announced, but in a bored moment of idle whois-ing, I queried robotsmovie.com — and 20th Century Fox Films owns it.
