Tim Robbins, the great Martin Landau, Marianne Jean-Baptiste and Harry Treadaway have joined the cast of the Gil Kenan directed film “City of Ember.”
Those already on board are headliner Bill Murray along with Toby Jones and Saoirse Ronan.
The script for “City of Ember” was written by Caroline Thompson, and based on the Jeanne DuPrau novel of the same name, centers on a remote village that is steeped in perpetual darkness. There are no stars, no moon and no sun and the only source of light comes from ever-dimming street lamps. Beyond the city limits are the pitch-black ‘Unknown Regions,’ which no one has ever explored because an understanding of fire and electricity has been lost.
As the small town becomes gripped in deeper darkness a couple of teenagers begin searching out why this is happening and seek out clues that might save the town from having its last vestige of light and power sucked out of it. Tim Robbins has been cast to play an inventor who holds the secret to the town’s light problem and Treadway portrays his teenage son trying to figure out the problem.
Look for “City of Ember” in theaters in October 2008.
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