In addition to a private event party for
their forthcoming Tropic Thunder,
where Paramount Pictures Vice
Chairman Rob Moore introduced the debut of the action comedy’s
trailer and brought out two of the film’s stars, Ben Stiller and Robert
Downey, Jr., to introduce a couple scenes from the August 15 release, Paramount/DreamWorks used ShoWest to debut art for another film. A keynote address
from DreamWorks Animation head Jeffrey Katzenberg announced the voice
cast for the upcoming 3-D animated feature Monsters vs. Aliens, slated for theaters on March 27, 2009.

Looking, at least courtesy of the single shot above, very much like Monsters, Inc. crossed with The Incredibles, Monsters vs. Aliens is the studio’s first film produced in Ultimate 3-D technology, and will be co-directed by Rob Letterman and Conrad Vernon. According to Katzenberg, the movie “reinvents the classic ’50s monster movie into an irreverent modern day action comedy.” With Earth under attack by an unstoppable alien, it’s up to the monsters (top to bottom, Insectosaurus; Ginormica, voiced by Reese Witherspoon; Dr. Cockroach, voiced by Hugh Laurie; the Missing Link, voiced by Will Arnett; and B.O.B., voiced by Seth Rogen) to overcome their misfit status and save the world from the pending imminent destruction. In addition to the aforementioned stars, other members of the voice cast include Rainn Wilson, Stephen Colbert, Kiefer Sutherland and Paul Rudd.