Variety reports that the studio that made the 3-D animated film “Fly Me to the Moon” (to be released August 8th by Summit) is beginning production on their next feature “Around the World in 50 Years — 3D”. nWave Pictures, a Belgian animation studio, will be self-financing the picture, and they expect to have it complete in 2009.

Story follows the adventures of a sea turtle hatched in 1959 as he travels the world while it is being changed by global warming.

Voice cast includes Anthony Anderson, Ed Begley Jr., Pat Carroll, Tim Curry, Kathy Griffin, Melanie Griffith, Stacy Keach and Jenny McCarthy.