Brosnan signs for high-concept comedy `Instant Karma` - filming April 2004 in New Orleans

02-Nov-2003 • Actor News

Movie Poop Shoot have reported that New Line Cinema has given the go ahead to the Rock laffer "Instant Karma," to be produced by visual f/x studio Digital Domain and "Shrek" and "Pirates of the Caribbean" scribes Terry Rossio and Ted Elliott.

The project, the second to be produced by Digital Domain, will blend live action and CGI to tell the story of a safecracker, played by Dwayne Johnson (aka the Rock), who dies and is reincarnated as a series of different animals, moving his way up the food chain.

Pierce Brosnan, Mira Sorvino, David Alan Grier and Eartha Kitt also star in the live-action elements, while Burt Reynolds, Dom DeLuise, Gene Wilder and the comedy troupe Broken Lizard provide voices of the animals.

Paul Hernandez will make his feature writing and directing bow on the pic, which is budgeted at $70 million. Production is expected to begin in April in New Orleans.

Hernandez also wrote Disney`s "Sky High," about a high school for the children of superheroes.

Digital Domain`s development exec Kevin Cooper will shepherd "Instant Karma" for the f/x house and create the pic`s computer-generated visuals.

Rossio and Elliott, who also penned the upcoming animated pics "Shrek 2" and "Tusker" at DreamWorks, will produce "Instant Karma" through their Scheherazade Prods. together with Digital Domain chairman-CEO Scott Ross.

The cmpany, best known for the Oscar-winning effects created for "Titanic," has been looking for years to expand beyond serving solely as an f/x facility for hire and increase its revenues.