"DreamWorks' The Wild Robot" News & Discussion Thread

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DreamWorks' The Wild Robot is scheduled to release theatrically on September 20, 2024. Trailer released-

From DreamWorks Animation comes a new adaptation of a literary sensation, Peter Brown’s beloved, award-winning, #1 New York Times bestseller, The Wild Robot. The epic adventure follows the journey of a robot—ROZZUM unit 7134, “Roz” for short — that is shipwrecked on an uninhabited island and must learn to adapt to the harsh surroundings, gradually building relationships with the animals on the island and becoming the adoptive parent of an orphaned gosling.

The Wild Robot stars Academy Award® winner Lupita Nyong’o (Us, The Black Panther franchise) as robot Roz; Emmy and Golden Globe nominee Pedro Pascal (The Last of Us, The Mandalorian) as fox Fink; Emmy winner Catherine O’Hara (Schitt’s Creek, Best in Show) as opossum Pinktail; Oscar® nominee Bill Nighy (Living, Love Actually) as goose Longneck; Kit Connor (Heartstopper, Rocketman) as gosling Brightbill and Oscar® nominee Stephanie Hsu (Everything Everywhere All at Once, this summer’s The Fall Guy) as Vontra, a robot that will intersect with Roz’s life on the island.

The film also features the voice talents of Emmy winning pop-culture icon Mark Hamill (Star Wars franchise, The Boy and the Heron), Matt Berry (What We Do in the Shadows, The SpongeBob Movie franchise) and Golden Globe winner and Emmy nominee Ving Rhames (Mission: Impossible films, Pulp Fiction).

A powerful story about the discovery of self, a thrilling examination of the bridge between technology and nature and a moving exploration of what it means to be alive and connected to all living things, The Wild Robot is written and directed by three-time Oscar® nominee Chris Sanders—the writer-director of DreamWorks Animation’s How to Train Your Dragon, The Croods, and Disney’s Lilo & Stitch—and is produced by Jeff Hermann (DreamWorks Animation’s The Boss Baby 2: Family Business; co-producer, Kung Fu Panda franchise).

Peter Brown’s The Wild Robot, an illustrated middle-grade novel first published in 2016, became a phenomenon, rocketing to #1 on the New York Times bestseller list. The book has since inspired a trilogy that now includes The Wild Robot Escapes and The Wild Robot Protects. Brown’s work on the Wild Robot series and his other bestselling books have earned him a Caldecott Honor, a Horn Book Award, two E.B. White Awards, two E.B. White Honors, a Children’s Choice Award for Illustrator of the Year, two Irma Black Honors, a Golden Kite Award and a New York Times Best Illustrated Book Award.


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From the front page of AnimeSuperhero.com:

"Dreamworks’ The Wild Robot Coming This September"​


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"Dreamworks Animation, up to this point known for smartaleck CGI films about mean ogres and talking babies, is trying something a bit different with The Wild Robot, the movie they revealed today with its first trailer.

This trailer is entirely wordless, suggesting its story entirely through pictures — and what pictures! Dreamworks is using a painterly filter for the animation that looks fabulous. A robot named Roz wakes up in the middle of a forest with no knowledge of how it got there. Roz has to learn all about the world with the help of the forest creatures it meets along its own journey."

Read the full article here.
 

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The animation is gorgeous :D!

I'm kind of disappointed that it sounds like the animals and the robot would actually speak because I feel like it would've been more unique if it was just without voices...but we need to fit in the celebrity voice cast somewhere :rolleyes2:.
 

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Honestly I’m not familiar with this book series (and I work at a school so that’s embarrassing). This still looks pretty awesome. It’s kind of like WALL-E mixed with a survivor story like Island of the Blue Dolphins.

EDIT: I saw a teacher that I work with show this trailer to her class. They were all pumped for it.
 
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I had the teaser pop up before another video. It was very impressive, and I was getting excited, but I did have this nagging feeling in my head; "is this a Dinosaur situation where it's a teaser that bellies how conventional the actual film is?" That suspicion increased when I saw all the celebrity names pop up at the end. But we'll see how this shapes up over subsequent trailers, and of course when the finished film comes out.
 

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I had the teaser pop up before another video. It was very impressive, and I was getting excited, but I did have this nagging feeling in my head; "is this a Dinosaur situation where it's a teaser that bellies how conventional the actual film is?" That suspicion increased when I saw all the celebrity names pop up at the end. But we'll see how this shapes up over subsequent trailers, and of course when the finished film comes out.
Two things that The Wild Robot has for it that makes me feel that it won't be another Dinosaur situation:

  1. It is based on a best-selling book.
  2. The film is being handled by Chris Sanders (Lilo and Stitch, How to Train Your Dragon).
 

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I wonder if this movie will be released in imax or something
Megalopolis, the new film from Francis Ford Coppola, will be released on the same day as this film (it was just announced), and it will share IMAX screens with the 10th anniversary Interstellar (only at screens equipped for 70MM projection) for the first week. The week after that will be Joker: Folie à Deux, shot partially in IMAX. So not for some time if ever, it appears.
 

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Megalopolis, the new film from Francis Ford Coppola, will be released on the same day as this film (it was just announced), and it will probably take most of the commercial IMAX screens for at least the first week of both films' releases.
oh ok
 

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