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Here is the first full-length trailer for Shane Acker’s 9, a computer animated movie produced by Tim Burton. It will be released in theaters September 9, 2009. See photos and the movie trailer video here.

9 is a feature-length motion picture based on WETA Digital artist Shane Acker’s 2005 animated short film of the same title which was nominated for the Academy Award for Animated Short Film in 2006. Tim Burton (“The Corpse Bride”) and Timur Bekmambetov (“Wanted,” “Nightwatch”) are the movie’s producers, with a soundtrack by composer Danny Elfman, who has composed music for all but two of Burton’s movies. The movie was co-written by Acker and Pamela Pettler (“Corpse Bride,” “Monster House”).

The movie uses a stylized CGI animation that resembles stop motion animation. The setting is a bleak post-apocalyptic world. The title character, 9 finds himself all alone until he discovers a small group of others who have taken refuge from the machines who have taken over the earth and are trying to destroy all the remaining humans. 9 takes a leadership role and convinces the others that they must confront the machines to discover why they are trying to destroy them. As events unfold, the future of civilization depends on them.

9 features the voice of Elijah Wood as the title character. Other characters are 1, a war veteran (Christopher Plummer); 2, an inventor (Martin Landau); 5, a mechanic (John C. Reilly); 6 a visionary and artist (Crispin Glover); and 7, a warrior (Jennifer Connelly).

The trailer shows a foreboding and dark world, beautifully captured in animation. It has been described as what we would see “if LittleBigPlanet’s Sackboy found himself in the world of Half-Life 2.”

Here is a gallery of images from the movie trailer. More photos and 9 movie trailer video are below.

Photos: WENN