(Source: Hollywood Reporter)
Ed Jones, who won a 1989 Oscar for his visual effects work in Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, will produce the animated comedy Escape from Planet Earth for Rainmaker Animation. The Weinstein Company (Grindhouse, Hoodwinked) will finance and distribute the flick worldwide.
Escape from Planet Earth is about a motley group of aliens who plot a prison break from that classic source of conspiracy myths, Area 51. Tony Leech will direct the flick, from a script written by Leech and Cory Edwards. The movie is based on an original idea by Leech.
Preston Stutzman of Blue Yonder Films (Hoodwinked), Jonathan Shestack of Jon Shestack Productions, Brian Inerfeld of Protocol and Gregory R. Little of Rainmaker Animation are co-producing the flick with Jones.
