Mark Hamill Makes Surprise Appearance During ‘The Wild Robot’ Comic-Con Panel
variety.comSharareh Drury Mark Hamill made a surprise pit-stop at “The Wild Robot” panel on Saturday at San Diego Comic-Con, joining director Chris Sanders and voice actors of the film Lupita Nyong’o and Kit Connor to discuss DreamWorks Animation’s new feature film.
Hamill, who voices a grizzly bear named Thorn in the film, says when he was first asked to be involved, he immediately read Peter Brown’s novel of which the film is based. “I was just knocked out.
I thought if they can capture just a small percentage of this effect of this book… I have to tell you, they just did a fantastic job.” “The Wild Robot” follows a hyper-intelligent android named Roz (voiced by Nyong’o) who finds a new purpose on an uninhabited island living amongst the wildlife and raising an orphaned baby duckling named Brightbill (voiced by Kit Connor).
The panel revealed three new clips from the film depicting Roz crash landing on the remote island, how she begins to interact and eventually communicate with its animal inhabitants, as well as the somber reason why she accepts the “task” of being Brightbill’s mother.
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