The Wild Robot | 'Behind the Scenes' Clip - Lupita Nyong’o, Pedro Pascal
The Wild Robot - In Theaters September 27
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.
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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00:00I love adventures, I love stories with heroes and villains and all that kind of stuff, and
00:29the stuff I always connect with is the smaller, more intimate things, the feelings that these
00:35characters are feeling.
00:37That's the stuff that I hold on to.
00:38You're his mother now.
00:39I do not have the programming.
00:41He needs to swim and fly.
00:44Swimming's easy.
00:45I can teach him the way my mom taught me, swim!
00:51Roz is an unrelentingly kind character.
00:55In this wild place that she was never designed to be, she learns kindness can be a survival
01:01skill.
01:02Did you perhaps order a Rozum helper robot?
01:03Where do you think you're going?
01:07Everyone on Wild Robot had such a great passion, and they're all doing their best work.
01:10This magical combination of scope and heart, based on the look of the book and with the
01:15subject matter that we were working with, Dreamworks is the perfect studio because the
01:19animators had already been developing this amazing illustrative style.
01:24Wow!
01:26You need to learn how things work on this island.
01:31Do you need assistance?
01:34We're really pushing the look further than what we had started on, Puss in Boots, The
01:37Last Wish.
01:38It takes a lot of work.
01:40We did a little sample, trying to make the leaves and grass on the ground merge together
01:44into solid areas of color.
01:46That really convinced us that it could work.
01:49The vision of the art department, combined with the comfort of the artist with the technology,
01:53all those things have built up.
01:55We wanted all those painterly touches, but we still wanted to be able to follow our characters
01:58through a believable dimensional world.
02:01They've really paid attention to every single detail.
02:04Every frame of this film creates spaces where it wants you to look.
02:09Brightville was never supposed to get this far.
02:13Hello, bonjour, hijambo.
02:17I am Gosling 0186.
02:19Ah!
02:20The migration, to me, is the showpiece of the whole movie.
02:25That's the scene that we have to build everything else around, because we really had to earn
02:30that moment, and Chris boarded the whole thing himself.
02:33Ready?
02:34I guess I have to be.
02:36He was a hero of mine since I was a kid.
02:39I grew up looking at his drawings in The Art of the Lion King, and it's a dream come true
02:43in every way.
02:44I think I got it!
02:45I think I got it!
02:50The artists here have outdone themselves in bringing a book and a story and characters
02:55to life that mean so much to me and to them, and hopefully someday to all of our audience
03:01that sees it.
03:05It's nothing like I've ever seen or experienced before.
03:08I cherished every single day.
03:10You are ordered to return home.
03:13I am already home, and I am a wild robot.