6 tells 9 to go to the Scientist's workshop to find answers, before being absorbed by the Fabrication Machine. The Fabrication Machine attacks the group as they run away and manages to capture 6. The Fabrication Machine, which survived, suddenly emerges from the ruins of the factory and absorbs 5's soul. 9 and 7 escape while the others destroy the factory. 9 goes in alone, kills the Seamstress, and rescues 7, but not before 8's soul is absorbed by the Fabrication Machine. The others then run to the factory to destroy the machines. The Seamstress attacks the library and captures both 7 and 8, but 2's body is recovered and given a funeral by the others. Meanwhile, the Fabrication Machine retrieves 2's corpse and uses it as a hypnotic lure for another one of its robot creatures, known as The Seamstress. 7, shocked by this, attacks 1, but flees when 9 intervenes. 7 joins the fight and the Stitchpunks defeat the Winged Beast.Īs the group retreats to the library, 6, 3, and 4 cryptically explain the talisman's origins, but 1 reveals to the group that he sent 2 out of Sanctuary on a scouting trip to die. Meanwhile, the Fabrication Machine assembles new robotic creatures one of them, the bird-like Winged Beast, attacks the Sanctuary. 9 and 5 return to Sanctuary to investigate, but 1 intervenes and reprimands them for disobeying his orders. 5 realizes the talisman's symbols match the clairvoyant drawings of 6. 9, 5, and 7 manage to escape the factory.ħ takes 9 and 5 to an abandoned library, where the silent scholar twins, 3 and 4, have taken residence, and show 9 the Fabrication Machine's origins. 9, drawn by curiosity, connects the talisman to the derelict Fabrication Machine, reviving it, and it subsequently kills 2 by sucking out his soul. The Cat-Beast attacks the trio, but are saved by 7, the only female of the Stitchpunks. 9 and 5 venture to the factory where they find 2. 9, having seen the condemned factory where the Cat-Beast took 2, decides to rescue him. 9 collapses, but awakens in Sanctuary, the tower of an empty cathedral that is home to other Stitchpunks - the dogmatic leader 1, his large bodyguard 8, the cycloptic engineer 5, and the mentally unstable oracle 6. The last active machine, the Cat-Beast, attacks the pair and abducts both 2 and takes the talisman. Some time later, the final Stitchpunk, 9, awakens in the workshop and ventures into the devastated city where he meets 2, a frail inventor who gives him a working voice box. He dies upon completion of the final doll. On the verge of destruction, the scientist uses alchemy to create nine homunculus-like rag dolls known as "Stitchpunks" as a last resort to stopping the machines, giving them portions of his own soul via a talisman he created. became corrupted because it lacked a soul, causing it to exterminate humanity. The dictator seizes it upon its apparent completion and turns it into the Fabrication Machine, an armature that can construct an army of war machines to destroy the dictator's enemies. The film was released on DVD and Blu-ray on December 29, 2009.Īs of 2023, it is Acker's only feature film to date while his other films, like Deep, were unknownly developed.Ī scientist is ordered by his dictator to create a robot in the apparent name of progress, and so the scientist creates the B.R.A.I.N., a highly intelligent robot. The film received generally mixed reviews from critics, earned $48.4 million on a $30 million budget and received a Outstanding Producer of Animated Theatrical Motion Pictures nomination in 21st Producers Guild of America Awards. Focus Features released it theatrically on September 9, 2009. The film is based on Acker's 2005 CG-animated, Academy Award-nominated short film of the same name created at the UCLA Animation Workshop. Reilly, Jennifer Connelly, Christopher Plummer and Crispin Glover, with Martin Landau and Fred Tatasciore. The film also features the voices of John C. Set in the alternate version of the 1940s, Elijah Wood voices a small ragdoll-like robot who awakens shortly after the end of mankind and must find eight other robots to figure out the mystery behind humanity's destruction while tangling with the vicious creations of a massive soul-stealing machine. 9 is a 2009 computer-animated science fiction film directed by Shane Acker, written by Pamela Pettler and produced by Jim Lemley, Tim Burton, Timur Bekmambetov and Dana Ginsburg.
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