Zack Snyder's Legend of the Guardians

After the ultra-violence of 300 and Watchmen, Zack Snyder has decided to take a break from stuff like that, although he is also working on the female action pic, Sucker Punch. For now, he's working on an animated film, about owls!! Yep, he's taking on an adaptation of the first 3 books of Kathryn Lasky's 15-book series Guardians of Ga'Hoole. It looks interesting as well.

It's about Soren (voiced by Jim Sturgess), a young barn owl who is kidnapped by the owls of the St. Aegolius Academy for Orphaned Owls, or St. Aggie's, as it's commonly known. The academy is meant to be an orphanage, but instead it brainwashes its pupils into becoming soldiers who will fight a war with the wise, peaceful owls of Ga'Hoole. The film also features the voices of Abbie Cornish, Miriam Margolyes, Helen Mirren, Sam Neill, Richard Roxburgh, Geoffrey Rush, Hugo Weaving and David Wenham.











Well, you have to admire Snyder for wanting to do something different, and who can fault him?? He's earned the right to do just that. 300 was a great new take on the old sword and sandals epics, and Snyder attempted the impossible with adapting Watchmen, and he succeeded. He's working with the same animation team that did Happy Feet, A trailer is to be attached to Alice in Wonderland when it opens. and it'll go on release, in 3-D and IMAX as well, on September 24th!!