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Fox Walden has supplied the IESB with new images from their next release CITY OF EMBER directed by Gil Kenan!
{sidebar id=1}For
generations, the people of the City of Ember have flourished in an
amazing world of glittering lights - underground. Built as a refuge
for humanity and powered by a massive generator - this city will only
sustain for 200 years. Now Ember is falling into darkness as the
generator fails, and the dazzling lights begin to flicker and fade.
Despite
growing concern for the future of their beloved city, Embers
students find themselves confronting the next step in their lives. A
rite of passage for all graduates, it is Assignment Day, the day on
which the Mayor himself will stand before the graduating students as
they choose, by lottery, how they will spend their lives working for
their society. Lina, praying with all her might to be a messenger,
is appalled to be assigned to the Pipeworks, the vast network of
pipes underneath the city. Her classmate, Doon Harrow, who wants
more than nothing else to work in the Generator, panics when he pulls
the messenger assignment. The Pipeworks isn't the Generator, but it
is close enough and Doon offers to swap assignments with Lina. She
is thrilled and grateful and eagerly changes jobs. Thus, an unlikely
friendship is born, one that, as it blossoms, will change the course
of all the lives in Ember.
Lina
takes easily to the job of messenger and finds herself zipping all
over Ember, delivering important missives to even more important
people, including the mayor himself. At home she cares for her aging
and forgetful grandmother, and her baby sister Poppy. When an old
metal box is discovered in their closet, Linas grandmother is
overjoyed. Completely sure that the contents of the box are of the
utmost importance, she is completely bereft of any memory as to why.
Lina
manages to jimmy the lock open, and discovers some cryptic and
decrepit papers inside. Unable to piece the papers together, Lina
resolves to decipher their meaning and enlists Doons help.
As
blackouts in the city become more frequent, Lina and Doon realize
that the information inside that box could lead to the salvation of
their city and their fellow citizens. Now racing against the clock,
the two follow the clues, cleverly maneuvering around corrupt
politicians and unsavory characters hoping to keep them from their
goal: restoring the light in the CITY OF EMBER.
A
Walden Media presentation of a Playtone production, this
heart-thumping, edge-of-your seat adventure boasts an impressive cast
and crew of acclaimed, award-winning talent. CITY OF EMBER was
directed by Gil Kenan (Academy Award nominee for Monster
House), and was produced by Playtones Tom Hanks and Gary
Goetzman. Recent Academy Award nominee Saoirse Ronan (Atonement)
as Lina leads an impressive cast that also includes Academy Award
nominee Bill Murray, in the role of the larger than life Mayor of
Ember, Harry Treadaway (Control) as Doon, Academy Award nominee
Marianne Jean-Baptiste (Secrets & Lies) as Clary, and Toby
Jones (Infamous) as Barton Snode, the Mayor of Embers right
hand man. Academy Award winner Tim Robbins plays Loris Harrow,
father of Doon, and Academy Award winner Martin Landau appears
as Sol, the Pipeworks gauge minder. The film is from a script written
by Caroline Thompson (Edward Scissorhands) based on the
best-selling novel by Jeanne Duprau.
CITY OF EMBER opens in theaters October 10
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