Zach Braff To Be 'Chicken Little'

[Thursday, December 11th, 2003]
Zach Braff ("Scrubs") has signed on to to voice the title character in the Walt Disney Co.'s animated Chicken Little according to The Hollywood Reporter.

He will be joined by other voice talents such as Joan Cusack, Steve Zahn, Amy Sedaris, Don Knotts, Katie Finneran and Garry Marshall, with director Mark Dindal (The Emperor's New Groove).

Braff's casting marks a change in gender of the title character as Chicken Little was originally envisioned to be a female character but now will be male.

The story centers on Chicken Little's wildly active imagination and tendency to overreact. He causes an uproar in his town when he pronounces that "the sky is falling down," which winds up getting him shipped off to a special camp where he meets other animals with challenges of their own.

Other roles are expected to see Cusack as the ugly duckling, Zahn as a big pig named Runt, Sedaris as Foxy Loxy, Finneran as Foxy's sidekick Goosey Lucy, Knotts as Turkey Mayor and Marshall as Father.

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