Ecco The Dolphin

Ecco The Dolphin is an upcoming fantasy science-fiction adventure movie based upon the 1994 Mega Drive game of the same name. The film will be produced by Lucasfilm and released by Disney's Buena Vista label.

Premise
Ecco The Dolphin follows a young bottle-nose dolphin whose family, in addition to a mile wide radius of nearby sea life, is whisked away into a sudden, violent storm. Left in isolation, confusion, and desperation, he is forced to traverse sea, time, and space to save his family.

Production
Development

Development on Ecco began as Ed Annunziata's Little Blue, a spiritual successor to his Ecco The Dolphin series, caught the attention of director Alfonso Cuaron.

Producer Christopher Nolan has stated that Ecco The Dolphin will employ heavily practical effects, such as animatronics and puppetry, in combination with CGI.