This past weekend I had the chance to check out Henry Selick's Coraline in 3D (my review is on the way), and I was mesmerized by a trailer that I hadn't seen before. The movie is called 9 and it comes from producers Tim Burton and Timur Bekmambetov (director of last summer's Wanted). An official plot synopsis follows below courtesy of IMDB.

9 takes place in a world parallel to our own, in which the very legacy of humanity is threatened. A group of sapient rag dolls, living a post-apocalyptic existence find one of their own, 9 (Elijah Wood), who displays leadership qualities that may help them to survive.

All humans are gone, and it is only by chance that he discovers a small community of others like him taking refuge from fearsome machines that roam the earth intent on their extinction. Despite being the neophyte of the group, 9 convinces the others that hiding will do them no good. They must take the offensive if they are to survive, and they must discover why the machines want to destroy them in the first place. As they’ll soon come to learn, the very future of civilization may depend on them.

The conflicted, but resilient group includes 1 (Christopher Plummer), a domineering war veteran; 2 (Martin Landau), an aged inventor; 5 (John C. Reilly), a stalwart mechanic; 6 (Crispin Glover), a visionary and artist; and 7 (Jennifer Connelly), a brave warrior.

The film is based off of a 2005 Academy Award nominated short film by Shane Acker (a former artist for Peter Jackson's WETA Digital, the effects team behind the Lord of the Rings trilogy and King Kong, who is also directing the feature length version) and you can check out the original short here. These characters are very similar to the Sackboy characters created for the Playstation 3 game Little Big Planet.

The trailer for the feature length film is action packed, and looks like one of the most original concepts for a computer animated film outside of every film Pixar tosses at us. This is definitely one of the few that could hold a stick to Pixar's seemingly never-ending hits. On a personal note, what really cranked this trailer up to 11 for me was the use of rock band Coheed and Cambria's song Welcome Home throughout nearly the entire trailer. We've embedded the trailer below. What do you guys think?

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