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Igor
Release Date:
September 19, 2008
September 22, 2006
Leondis to Direct Igor
Tony Leondis (Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch) will direct CG-animated comedy Igor for the Exodus Film Group. The story centers on hunchbacked lab worker Igor (Christian Slater) who dreams of one day becoming a great scientists like his evil boss (John Cleese) and winning a prize at the annual Evil Science Fair. Steve Buscemi also has a voice role as Igor's smart but grumpy rabbit. The Weinstein Co. will distribute the film domestically.
Source: The Hollywood Reporter
February 2, 2006
Weinsteins experiment on Igor
The Weinstein Co. has acquired North American rights to the upcoming CG animated film Igor. It continues the fledgling studios breakout into animation, with the recent release of Hoodwinked and the upcoming projects Doogal, Opus, A Cricket in Times Square and a new imagining of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles story.
Igor follows a mad scientist's hunchbacked lab assistant who aspires to win the Evil Science Fair. Chris McKenna wrote the screenplay.
Source: Variety
July 19, 2005
Cast signs up for Igor
A number of cast members have signed up for the upcoming feature length CGI film, Igor, for Exodus Film Group. Christian Slater will voice Igor, the hunchbacked lab assistant to a mad scientist. Igor harbors dreams of winning the grand prize at the annual Evil Science Fair so that he may become a respected mad scientist himself. Steve Buscemi will provide the voice for Scamper, a super-smart and highly sarcastic laboratory rabbit, and Cleese will portray Dr. Glickenstein, Igor's evil master. Jay Leno will play Brian the Brain.
Source: The Hollywood Reporter
September 7, 2004
Igor is animated
Exodus Film has signed veteran animation executive Max Howard, who has overseen such stuff as Beauty and the Beast, The Lion King and Who Framed Roger Rabbit, to executive produce the CGI-animated film Igor. The budget for the movie is set at $20-25 million and is scheduled to be released in 2007. The screenplay was written by Chris McKenna and centers around a hunchbacked laboratory assistant who dreams of becoming an infamous mad scientist and winning first place at the annual Evil Science Fair. Exodus plans for the film to be a franchise property, with the film making way for toys, videogames and television series.
Source: Variety
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