DreamWorks Animation took the stage at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival to introduce the audience to its tender-hearted mechanical hero, The Wild Robot, coming to theaters September 27.
Based on author Peter Brown’s award-winning, #1 New York Times bestseller, The Wild Robot follows the journey of ROZZUM unit 7134 (“Roz” for short), a robot shipwrecked on an uninhabited island who 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 film stars Academy Award winner Lupita Nyong’o (Us) as Roz, Emmy and Golden Globe nominee Pedro Pascal (The Last of Us) as fox Fink; Emmy winner Catherine O’Hara (Schitt’s Creek) as opossum Pinktail; Oscar nominee Bill Nighy (Love Actually) as goose Longneck; Kit Connor (Heartstopper) as gosling Brightbill and Oscar nominee Stephanie Hsu (Everything Everywhere All at Once) as Vontra, a robot that will intersect with Roz’s life on the island.
The voice roster is filled out by 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).
The Wild Robot is written and directed by three-time Oscar nominee Chris Sanders (How to Train Your Dragon, The Croods, Lilo & Stitch) and is produced by Jeff Hermann (The Boss Baby 2: Family Business; co-producer, Kung Fu Panda franchise).
