Breaking Baz: DreamWorks’ ‘The Wild Robot’ Set To Wow Audiences At Annecy Animation Festival & How Lupita Nyong’o Discovered The Movie’s Voice Of Kindness
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: A key principle underpinning DreamWorks Animation‘s The Wild Robot — directed and written by Chris Sanders, produced by Jeff Hermann and starring Lupita Nyong’o as the voice of Roz the robot — is that kindness matters, say the filmmakers.
Based on Peter Brown’s 2016 bestseller, the movie is releasing in U.S. theaters on September 27 and in the UK on October 18.
It follows the adventures of Rozzum unit 7134, aka “Roz,” when she — the filmmakers confirmed her gender as female — is shipwrecked on a remote island, inhabited only by humans, and how she must learn by interacting with and exploring her environment.
She forms a connection with the island’s animals “and becomes something she didn’t expect to be,” says Hermann. Roz discovers a goose egg and adopts the egg, out of which hatches a gosling Roz names Brightbill, voiced by Kit Conner.
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