Dreamworks showed off its latest film this week, The Wild Robot, which comes from the director of Lilo & Stitch and How To Train Your Dragon.
It’s been a long while since we had a film about a cute robot that is mostly by itself interacting with a world without humans, but The Wild Robot looks to pick up where Wall-E left off, albeit with an (presumably) earth that hasn’t been devastated by climate change. The film is being produced by Dreamworks, and looks to be continuing that more recent trend of unique 3D animation that the studio experimented with in last year’s Puss in Boots: The Last Wish. Helming the project is Chris Sanders, best known for directing Lilo & Stitch, How To Train Your Dragon, and The Croods, and it has a pretty stacked cast too.
At the top of the bill is Us and Black Panther’s Lupita Nyong’o, who voices the titular robot of the film, Roz. It seems like the various critters seen in the trailer, which you can watch above, will also be voiced, as The Mandalorian’s Pedro Pascal will voice a fox called Fink, being joined by Catherine O’Hara (Schitt’s Creek, Home Alone) as opossum Pinktail, Bill Nighy (Detective Pikachu, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest) as goose Longneck, Kit Connor (Heartstopper) as gosling Brightbill, and Stephanie Hsu (Everything Everywhere All at Once) as Vontra, another robot.
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