City of Ember

[Geekyfanboy]

I have heard nothing about this and came across the poster so I looked it up.. it sounds like it's a pretty cool story.

Ember is a city built to last 200 years. The Builders of this city left instructions to the mayors in a box that would open by itself, unfortunately, one of the mayors was corrupt, and tossed the box into a closet, to be forgotten about for centuries. The year is 241. Lina Mayfleet, and Doon Harrow are two children in Ember that find themselves on a mission to save their dying city. For the citys lights are beginning to flicker, and the food supplies are running out. Doon lands a job in the Pipeworks, to see if he can fix the generator. Linas job is simple, she is a messenger, but she soon finds herself in over her head when she discovers the instructions left by the builders so long ago. Her and Doon find themselves on an adventure when they discover the way out of Ember, but corrupt officials, and a treacherous mayor stand against their wishes of saving the city. With courage and heart they brave the darkness, all to help their citizens escape the dying city, and lead them to another world.

[billybob476]

Kind of reminds me of Fallout (the game).

[Darth Gaos]

I believe the treacherous mayor is none other than Bill Murray...I think.  I wanna say I saw this preview recently in the theater.  It does look like an interesting movie.

[Geekyfanboy]

Yeah Bill Murray is the Mayor... here is the trailer.. I can't beleive I know nothing about this... looks like the kind of movie that I love.

[billybob476]

I saw the preview before Clone Wars, but that's all I had ever seen/heard about it.

[celestialteapot]

I really want to see this, looks like great fun :D

[KC]

It definitely looks like a fun movie.  I keep passing by the book series at work, and I'm tempted to give them a read before the movie comes out.  And was the actress in the trailer the little girl in Atonement?  I think her first name is Saorise...

[Rico]

Definitely want to see this one.

[celestialteapot]

I keep passing by the book series at work, and I'm tempted to give them a read before the movie comes out. 

I didn't realise it was a book, might have to go look for that.

[KC]

I didn't realise it was a book, might have to go look for that.

The books don't really get a lot of press like the Harry Potter and Twilight series do, so I didn't realize that was the source material of the movie until a month ago.  However, it's a really interesting premise... the trailer kind of reminds me of a depiction of a mini-Rome with Bill Murray as a Caesar-like character.  That's interesting enough to me.  :)

[globeTrekker]

Rented this recently and really enjoyed it. A little goonie-ish near the end, but otherwise thought it had a nice look/feel and some refreshingly new faces in the primary roles.

[Java The Hut]

The books are by Jeanne DuPrau, as far as I know there are 4 books so far

1. The City of Ember
2. The People of Sparks
3. The Prophet of Yonwood
4. The Diamond of Darkhold

im part way through the 2nd one, there a little on the young adult side of books
but still a fun read

I hope they make the rest of the series into movies