So this may sound like a joke that you tell your buddies sitting around drinking at 4am but what do you get when you put Luke Skywalker, Anakin Skywalker, 2 James T. Kirks, The Voice of Darth Vader and Neil Armstrong together in a movie? Oh yeah throw in Samuel L. Jackson for good measure.

My initial guess would be a really messed space odyssey that makes absolutely no sense.

Well my answer was partially correct, it is a space odyssey, but according to everyone’s favorite trade publication, Variety, Chris Pine, William Shatner, James Earl Jones, Hayden Christensen and Mark Hamill have joined the voice cast for independent 3D animated film entitled, Quantum Quest: A Cassini Space Odyssey.

According to article,

“William Shatner, Chris Pine, James Earl Jones and Hayden Christensen will top-line the voice cast of the $10 million film that is being financed by Taiwanese toon-shop Digimax.”

“Samuel L. Jackson, Amanda Peet, Jason Alexander, Sandra Oh, Mark Hamill, Abigail Breslin and Spencer Breslin round out the voice cast. Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong also will lend his voice, marking his big-screen debut.”

“Directed by Dan St. Pierre and Harry Kloor, Quantum Quest will bow first in Imax and subsequently in conventional theaters in late 2009. The story centers on Dave (Pine), a photon who lives in the sun and who is drawn into a galactic battle between the Core (Shatner) and the Void (Hamill).

“Penned by Harry “Doc” Kloor, the film will take the audience to the outer planets and moons of the solar system.”

Also perhaps the most interesting point in the article is the concept of the film itself, Variety pointed that the movie “interweaves animated sequences rendered by Digimax with actual space imagery captured from seven ongoing space missions. The pic was initiated by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory as part of the outreach program of the Cassini Huygens space mission in 1996.”

Sounds like a really cool movie idea and something that the real nerd in me might enjoy. Also what a really great voice cast at lease with Jones and Hamill who have lots of experience in that department.