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For You Jackman Fans (Jen!)

Jackman Gets Flushed Away D avid Bowers, co-director of DreamWorks' upcoming animated Flushed Away, told SCI FI Wire that the movie stars Hugh Jackman as the voice of Roddy, a pampered rat in a London penthouse. "The wretched humans are gone, and a rat named Roddy has the house to himself," Bowers said in an interview at a preview of DreamWorks' upcoming animated film slate last week. "He makes himself at home, going on the Internet, ordering food in and using the two pet hamsters as his servants." Ultimately, Roddy finds himself ousted from his luxury digs and forced to fend for himself in the sewers of London.

In Flushed Away, Jackman is reunited with his X-Men co-star Ian McKellen, who voices Roddy's chief nemesis. The Lord of the Rings' Andy Serkis (Gollum), meanwhile, gives voice to a rat named Spike, and others in the cast include British comic Shane Richie, Simon Callow, Bill Nighy, Jean Reno and Kate Winslet.

Roddy ends up being flushed out of his house while using the toilet as a Jacuzzi. Flushed Away tells his story as he tries to get back home.

As a major plot device, the British soccer team figures prominently, as did the Red Sox in the recent baseball movie Fever Pitch. Flushed Away is scheduled for release on Nov. 3, 2006.

Posted by Ithildin at August 17, 2005 4:06 PM | PROCURE FINE OLD WORLD ABSINTHE