Marvin the Martian is going to get his very own movie. Only the world around him will be live action, he’ll be animated, much like the Alvin and the Chipmunks movies.

The Looney Tunes character is getting his own movie — and now that movie has a director and writers, and could soon even have a star to lend Marvin his voice.

Warner Bros. and producer Alcon Entertainment (the company behind the fall sensation “The Blind Side”) are bringing aboard a director named Alex Zamm to oversee the misadventures of the cartoon alien.

The plot for “Marvin” will remain what it was when it was first announced in the summer of 2008: Marvin comes to Earth to try to destroy Christmas, but his plans are foiled when he gets trapped inside a gift box.

Filmmakers are aiming to get going on some of the visual work in 2010, with the idea to bring out the movie during the holiday season of 2011.

Marvin will be a CG creation, surrounded by live-action actors in the manner of “Alvin & The Chipmunks,” which this Christmas will again show why studios are going animal-crazy for this kind of hybrid.

I’ve always love Marvin the Martian, I hope they manage to revive the character in his original form and don’t try anything too crazy. Alvin and the Chipmunks have been ruined forever from the current junky movies, I hope this isn’t another classic character destroyed for the sake of the studio dollar.

Source: L.A. Times

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