New Astro Boy Movie Images

After the temporary shutdown in the creation of the Astro Boy Movie due to some financial problems, Imagi has just release new images from their upcoming CG-animated feature, Astro Boy.

The movie also was previewed last month at New York Comic Con, where a short teaser was shown and earned positive praise.

Here are some new pictures from the Astro boy Movie:




Though the graphics is kinda "Jimmy Neutronish", I still think this will be a good movie with it's settings, effects and lighting garnering good reviews.

Voices for Astroboy Movie Announced

Set in futuristic Metro City, Imagi Studios' Astro Boy is about a young robot with incredible powers created by a brilliant scientist to replace the son he has lost. Unable to fulfill the grieving father's expectations, our hero embarks on a journey in search of acceptance, experiencing betrayal and a netherworld of robot gladiators, before he returns to save Metro City and reconcile with the man who had rejected him.

Due for worldwide theatrical release in 2009, "Astro Boy" will feature the voices of Academy Award®-winning actor Nicolas Cage, Donald Sutherland, Nathan Lane, Bill Nighy and Eugene Levy with Freddie Highmore in the title role. David Bowers is directing ASTRO BOY from a screenplay written by Timothy Harris, with Maryann Garger producing.

As mentioned on the previous post, Highmore will voice over Astroboy for the Lead Role.

Highmore - voice of Astroboy

Astro Boy is being adapted into a big budget CG movie by Warner Bros. and The Weinstein Company and the titular character has already been cast. The voice of Astro Boy will be provided by Freddie Highmore.

Highmore is familiar to most film fans as Charlie Bucket from Tim Burton's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. He's no stranger to voice work either, as he recently provided the voice of Pantalaimon in The Golden Compass.

Astro Boy debuted as a manga in 1952 and became a television series in 1963. The character was created by Osamu Tezuka, considered the "god of manga" by some, and the television series was one of the first cartoons to use the anime asthetic.

The film version is slated for release in 2009 and is being scripted by Timothy Harris, the man responsible for Space Jam - the greatest movie to ever involve Michael Jordan and Bill Murray teaming up with cartoons to fight monsters from space. Astro Boy is in good hands.