Animals and humans join 'G-Force'
Source: Hollywood Reporter ()
Steve Buscemi, Tracy Morgan, Nicolas Cage (Getty Images photos)
Nicolas Cage, Steve Buscemi and Tracy Morgan will be three of the
lead voices in “G-Force,” for Walt Disney Pictures and Jerry
Bruckheimer Films.
Bill Nighy and Will Arnett also have joined the ranks of the human
actors in the live-action/CG film, which marks the directorial
debut of Oscar-winning visual effects innovator Hoyt Yeatman.
The story follows a group of ultra-intelligent animal commandoes
who work for a government agency trying to prevent an evil
billionaire from taking over the world. Cage will play Speckles, a
mole; Buscemi will portray Bucky, a hamster; and Morgan will voice
Blaster, a guinea pig. Nighy will portray an industrialist, and
Arnett will play an FBI agent.
Live-action leads also include Zach Galifianakis, Kelli Garner,
Gabriel Casseus and Jack Conley.
Production is currently under way in Los Angeles. Jerry Bruckheimer
is producing. Executive producing are Bruckheimer Films’ Mike
Stenson and Chad Oman, along with Duncan Henderson.
“It’s a good story; it’s unique characters, it’s half animation,
half live action,” Bruckheimer told The Hollywood Reporter. “It
falls right into the Disney family of films — the kind of films we
make, like ‘National Treasure,’ which entertain everybody from the
smallest kid to the oldest grandparent.”
Yeatman — who won an Academy Award for visual effects on “The
Abyss,” as well as a Technical Achievment Award — is “a visual
effects genius, and he has worked on a number of our movies in the
past,” Bruckheimer said. “(Yeatman) came up with this idea with his
son, believe it or not. We developed the screenplay. … Now we are
filming. It’s pretty exciting for him — it’s his first time
(directing) — and it’s exciting for us to get into a whole new
medium.”
is repped by CAA. Buscemi and Morgan are repped by Endeavor.
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