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Details of the project are being kept under wraps, but it uses performance capture to “tell a story that’s a throwback to old Godzilla movies,” Dougherty said. “I grew up watching Godzilla movies. This film is very much rooted in those movies.”

ImageMovers’ Zemeckis, Jack Rapke and Steve Starkey will produce.

The producers are readying “A Christmas Carol,” their follow up to “Beowulf” and “The Polar Express,” which will use the performance capture process and Disney will distrib in 2009.

Idea for “Calling All Robots” was hatched in part because of the capabilities of the technology, which combines the filming of actors and combines their moves using computers to create digital characters and sets.

“It’s a film we just could not make in live action or traditional animation,” said Dougherty, who began his career as an animator.

Dougherty recently helmed “Trick ‘r Treat,” a Halloween-themed horror pic that Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures were going to release last October but bumped to this year in order to move pic away from an onslaught of slashers at the multiplex.