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“Our dreams are who we are...”

Young owlet Soren embarks on a quest to follow his dreams…only to discover they’re real. Stepping into the legend that he’s faithfully followed through his father’s nest-time stories, he becomes a crucial part of the next chapter in the epic tales.Now on a true hero’s journey of self-discovery, young Soren and his friends join their mentors in an action-packed battle against the evil Pure Ones to protect not only their freedom, but the very existence of the Guardians of Ga’Hoole, who have sworn an oath to mend the broken, make strong the weak, and vanquish evil.



“Isn’t it every kid’s fantasy to become a character in his or her favourite story?” director Zack Snyder asks. “In our film, it’s a young owl who wants to find these legendary warrior owls that have been part of his personal mythology since he was born. And when the stories actually turn out to be true, it’s very powerful.”

In “Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole,” Snyder and the gifted creative team at the Australian design, animation and visual effects house, Animal Logic, sought to open a window into a world that hasn’t been seen before, with mythic environments and expansive terrains like nothing they’d ever imagined, and owls so wonderfully realized that you almost forget they’re not real.

“Zack brings a visual language to his movies that is distinctive, and so do we at Animal Logic, so the marriage between Zack’s vision and our vision was easy right from the get-go,” says the film’s producer, Animal Logic CEO Zareh Nalbandian.



Drawing from his experience on the Academy Award®-winning “Happy Feet,” Nalbandian assembled a crew of more than 500 digital professionals, including a team of computer animation specialists, to bring “Legend of the Guardians” from the page to the screen, with the added dimension of a 3D film.

“We don’t think about our movies as animated, we think of them as movies. Zack didn’t come on board to make an animated movie, he came to make a great action fantasy adventure, tracking a hero’s journey, which happened to be in an animated world. It was about creating a visual feast for audiences that would be unique.”



In addition to the challenge of taking on his first entirely computer generated project, Snyder, whose previous work includes the epic action films “300” and “Watchmen,” found that his motivation for making this particular story hit close to home. “I know it sounds cliché,” the director admits, “but my kids are always saying to me, ‘Dad, when are you gonna make a movie we can see?’ And the chance to work with the animators at Animal Logic really appealed to me; there were moments in ‘Happy Feet’ that I found artistically breathtaking. So when I saw their initial ‘Guardians’ artwork, and then read the stories of Soren and his friends on this incredible quest, I looked at it as a perfect opportunity to bring my own sensibilities to a family film.”

Legend of the Guardians 3D: The Owls of Ga'Hoole starts 30 September at IMAX in Darling Harbour.Tickets are on sale now. Buy online and reserve your seat today.