I hadn’t heard much lately about Harland Williams‘ animated film project, “Route 66.” According to the last update on the IMDB site, Williams’ movie was slated to be released this year.
But a reader pointed out this excerpt in Punchline Magazine, which interviewed Williams:
He recently began the painstakingly long process of directing his own animated DreamWorks film, Route 66, about a roadside golf-ball statue that sets out to find a giant blueberry named Betty— the statue’s true love that goes missing. “This is like my little baby. I showed some of my artwork to Jeffrey Katzenberg recently, and he really loved it,” he says. “But it’s a lengthy process and it’s all kept pretty hush-hush. It’s not even slated to come out until 2010.”
DreamWorks may have delayed production so it wouldn’t come out so soon after another Route 66-themed movie, “Cars.” But Williams has so many irons in the fire (check out his Web site to see all the stuff he’s doing), he simply may not have had time to finish it as originally scheduled.