Michael Dougherty to Direct Animated Calling All Robots

Walt Disney Pictures and Robert Zemeckis’ ImageMovers have a great project coming your way — “Calling All Robots”, a sci-fi adventure romp that will use the same performance capture technolog that Zemeckis used for his “The Polar Express” and more recently, “Beowulf”. The project will be directed by Michael Dougherty (pictured, left), who wrote “Superman Returns” and before that, “X2″. For those who didn’t think the characters in “Express” was very lifelike, they had to be express by the improvements shown in “Beowulf”. And now, it stands to reason that the animation for “Calling All Robots” should be nearly flawless, right? Or at least, greatly improved once again.

Dougherty will pen the project with Breehn Burns and Simeon Wilkins, who will serve as artists and visual designers on the project. The trio conceived the idea together.

Details of the project are being kept under wraps, but it uses performance capture to “tell a story that’s a throwback to old Godzilla movies,” Dougherty said. “I grew up watching Godzilla movies. This film is very much rooted in those movies.”

Add the brief plot description to the title of the movie, and I’m guessing that robots are called in to fight the Godzilla-like monsters. Or something along that line. In any case, this sounds like fun, especially with the freedom animation allows the creativiity, i.e. big ass robots fighting monsters! Or maybe not.