Rosie Perez, Craig Ferguson and Arsenio Hall will join Christina Ricci for the CG-animated feature The Hero of Color City, directed by Becky Bristow.
The actors will lend voices as a group of crayons fighting to save their multihued city.
The film’s producer, Exodus Film Group, has also made a deal with Simon & Schuster to publish a series of children’s books around the story.
Magnolia Pictures will handle a domestic theatrical and home video release in 2010.