{"id":53062,"date":"2024-06-11T17:00:38","date_gmt":"2024-06-11T15:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=2054871"},"modified":"2024-06-11T17:53:41","modified_gmt":"2024-06-11T15:53:41","slug":"the-wild-robot-director-unpacks-new-trailer-for-animated-film-starring-pedro-pascal-kit-connor","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/the-wild-robot-director-unpacks-new-trailer-for-animated-film-starring-pedro-pascal-kit-connor\/","title":{"rendered":"The Wild Robot director unpacks new trailer for animated film starring Pedro Pascal, Kit Connor"},"content":{"rendered":"

The new DreamWorks film is based on a hugely popular book by Peter Brown and also stars Lupita Nyong’o, Catherine O’Hara and Bill Nighy in its voice cast. <\/p>

By Patrick Cremona\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Tuesday, 11 June 2024 at 15:00 PM<\/p>

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A new trailer has launched for the upcoming DreamWorks animated film The Wild Robot \u2013 which is based on a hugely popular book of the same name<\/a> and features an all-star voice cast including Lupita Nyong\u2019o, Pedro Pascal and Kit Connor.<\/p>\n

The trailer gives us a closer look at the epic adventures of a robot named ROZZUM Unit 7134 \u2013 Roz, for short \u2013 after she gets stranded on an uninhabited island and must find a way to survive in a harsh environment she was not programmed for.<\/p>\n

Exciting stuff!<\/p>\n

You can view the full trailer \u2013 which features some stunning animation \u2013 below:<\/p>\n\n<p>To mark the trailer launch, the film\u2019s director Chris Sanders (Lilo & Stitch, How to Train Your Dragon) spoke exclusively to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/\">RadioTimes.com<\/a> about the new film and why he was so desperate to tell the story of Roz.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was looking around for my next project, and I dropped by DreamWorks,\u201d he explained. \u201cAnd amongst the things that they had to offer as things to develop was the book The Wild Robot.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd when they described it, and gave me the lowdown, I immediately picked that one out as the one that I was very interested in. It lined up very much with what I\u2019m all about, and the kind of things I do, and my sensibilities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo I read it. And I ran back as fast as I could and said, \u2018Yes, I\u2019d like to do this, please. May I be the director on this? I\u2019d love to write and direct it.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd once we started, I actually mentioned to my daughter the project I was working on, and she said, \u2018I read that book,\u2019 and she immediately pulled it out.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd I was like, \u2018Yes, I do remember seeing that around the house for a while.\u2019 It\u2019s a book that is widely read in schools. So she was very excited that I was working on it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read more:<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"headline post-header__title post-header__title--headline-layout\">\n<ul>\n<li class=\"heading-1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/movies\/pixar-sequels-originals-priority-exclusive-newsupdate\/\">Pixar creative chief addresses whether sequels or originals are priority<\/a><\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"headline post-header__title post-header__title--headline-layout\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/movies\/ian-mckellen-gandalf-return-gollum-newsupdate\/\">Ian McKellen open to Gandalf return in Gollum film: \u201cIf I\u2019m alive\u201d<\/a><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>Sanders explained that one of the \u201cvery first conversations\u201d he had when he boarded the project was with the book\u2019s author Peter Brown, who he said gave him \u201ca great gift\u201d in the form of some key advice on how to approach the source material.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn our very first conversation with him, he revealed to us that the guiding theme and principle in his head, as he wrote the book, was that kindness can be a survival skill,\u201d he explaned.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd it was a key to Roz\u2019s story, because she\u2019s a piece of high technology lost in a wilderness. She\u2019s in the opposite place, in every way of what she was designed to exist in. And the place that she\u2019s in is unforgiving.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He continues: \u201cWhen she finds herself most animals, she connects with them, and learns very quickly that they do not want to have anything to do with her and they don\u2019t like her. And she also learns the rather savage and unforgiving nature of the island.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd that was something that Peter Brown revealed to us \u2013 is that this is a story all about defying and exceeding your programming.\u201d<\/p> <p>Of course, robots have been a feature in several acclaimed animated films from years gone by \u2013 from The Iron Giant to Big Hero 6 \u2013 and Brown said that Roz had one key thing in common with most of her predecessors.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of the things that she shares with all those films is a lack of facial articulation,\u201d he said. \u201cThe only robot I\u2019ve ever seen that I felt was successful that did have facial articulation would be The Iron Giant by Brad Bird. And that was a very restrained articulation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWall-E, R2DT, C-3P0, the robots from Forbidden Planet \u2013 they have minimal to zero facial articulation. And there\u2019s a really good reason for that, I think it allows you to empathise with them more.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think too much articulation tends to be off-putting \u2013 it has the opposite effect, actually. Little to no articulation allows the audience to empathise and to connect with these characters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, that was one of the guiding principles. And a difference that you can see between the illustrations in the book and the creature here in our film is that we eliminated the mouth.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the book, Peter Brown\u2019s illustrations have just a very simple, understated line for a mouth \u2013 and his illustrations are still, so it\u2019s a really good thing for that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn a movie where we\u2019re able to move the robot, we put all of our eggs in the eyes and the body movement basket. Giving the images those limitations is exactly what I wanted to do, because I knew that when you do that, they can do extraordinary things.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Wild Robot will be released in UK cinemas on Friday 18th September 2024.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"layout-md-rail__primary\">\n<div class=\"post__content\">\n<div class=\"editor-content mb-lg hidden-print js-piano-locked-content\" data-placement=\"Body\">\n<div>\n<p><strong>Check out more of our\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/movies\/\">Film<\/a>\u00a0coverage or visit our\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/tv\/tv-listings\/\">TV Guide<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/streaming-guide\/\">Streaming Guide<\/a>\u00a0to find out what\u2019s on.\u00a0<\/strong><strong>For more from the biggest stars in TV, listen to\u00a0<a id=\"OWA71a5a05f-6651-b0f3-aeda-3d3d09b909b1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/audio\/podcasts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"1\">The Radio Times Podcast<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div> <\/body><\/html>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> The new DreamWorks film is based on a hugely popular book by Peter Brown and also stars Lupita Nyong’o, Catherine O’Hara and Bill Nighy in its voice cast. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":53063,"template":"","categories":[1],"acf":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2024\/06\/the-wild-robot-director-unpacks-new-trailer-for-animated-film-starring-pedro-pascal-kit-connor.png",1224,816,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2024\/06\/the-wild-robot-director-unpacks-new-trailer-for-animated-film-starring-pedro-pascal-kit-connor-150x150.png",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2024\/06\/the-wild-robot-director-unpacks-new-trailer-for-animated-film-starring-pedro-pascal-kit-connor-300x200.png",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2024\/06\/the-wild-robot-director-unpacks-new-trailer-for-animated-film-starring-pedro-pascal-kit-connor-768x512.png",768,512,true],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2024\/06\/the-wild-robot-director-unpacks-new-trailer-for-animated-film-starring-pedro-pascal-kit-connor-1024x683.png",800,534,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2024\/06\/the-wild-robot-director-unpacks-new-trailer-for-animated-film-starring-pedro-pascal-kit-connor.png",1224,816,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2024\/06\/the-wild-robot-director-unpacks-new-trailer-for-animated-film-starring-pedro-pascal-kit-connor.png",1224,816,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"The new DreamWorks film is based on a hugely popular book by Peter Brown and also stars Lupita Nyong'o, Catherine O'Hara and Bill Nighy in its voice cast.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/53062"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}