Seth Green is the latest to join the Robert Zemeckis-produced performance-capture movie "Mars Needs Moms!"

The movie is based on the Berkeley Breathed children's novel and follows Milo, a boy who who must help his mother when she is abducted by martians.

According to the Hollywood Reporter, Green plays Milo. Also on board are Mindy Sterling, who stars as Mars' alien leader, Dan Fogler, who plays Milo's friend, and Joan Cusack, who plays his mother.

Simon Wells is directing a screenplay he wrote with Wendy Wells. His directing credits include "The Prince of Egypt" and 2002's "The Time Machine."

Green, who's working on "Family Guy" and "Robot Chicken," was last seen on the big screen in "Sex Drive." He will next star in "Old Dogs."

Zemeckis last directed "Beowulf." He is currently wrapping up "A Christmas Carol," due in theaters Nov. 6, 2009.

Here's your daily dose of movie news for Jan. 31, 2009:

• Dan Fogler has officially joined Robert Zemeckis' "Mars Needs Moms!," which the director will shoot using the motion-capture technique he used in "The Polar Express," "Beowulf" and his upcoming "A Christmas Carol." As for the story, it follows a young boy who must help his mother when she is abducted by martians. (ComingSoon)

• Tom Wheeler is set to write "Puss in Boots," DreamWorks Animation's upcoming "Shrek" spinoff. Chris Miller worked on an earlier draft. Antonio Banderas voiced the feline swordsman in "Shrek 2" and "Shrek the Third." By the way, "Shrek Goes Fourth" is set for release May 21, 2010. (The Hollywood Reporter)

• Jeffrey Dean Morgan has joined Hilary Swank in Antti J. Jokinen's thriller "The Resident," about a doctor (Swank) who moves into a new Brooklyn loft and quickly discovers her landlord is a stalker. Jokinen wrote the script with Robert Orr, and Erin Cressida Wilson recently completed a rewrite. (The Hollywood Reporter)

• Clifton Collins Jr., Josh Lawson, Kevin Sussman, Zoe Boyle, Nat Faxon, Warren Hutchinson, Jane Seymour, Olivia Munn and Dave Foley are set to star in Broken Lizard's comedy "Freeloaders," which focuses on five dudes and a girl who live in a rock star’s mansion until he decides to sell his crib. (Variety)