PDI announces “Tusker”

Coming off their successful animated feature, “Antz,” Pacific Data Images (PDI) and DreamWorks have announced that their next collaboration will be “Tusker,” directed by Tim Johnson (co-director of “Antz”) and Brad Lewis (producer of “Antz”). The film will be PDI/DreamWorks’ third project and will follow the release of “Shrek,” which is currently in production. “Tusker” follows a herd of elephants as they make a perilous trek across Southeast Asia confronting numerous dangers including a malevolent group of poachers. Says DreamWorks head, Jeffrey Katzenberg, “Tim, Brad and the entire PDI team brought an enormous amount of creativity and energy to ‘Antz.’ It will be fun to see what they can do with bigger things - like elephants. We think ‘Tusker’ has all the right ingredients to make a great movie, and PDI is just the team to make it happen.”