Read ‘The Wild Robot’ Screenplay by Chris Sanders (EXCLUSIVE)
variety.comJazz Tangcay Artisans Editor Filmmaker Chris Sanders was visiting DreamWorks Animation to see what was in development, when he came across Peter Brown’s novel “The Wild Robot.“ The first few sentences of Brown’s story inspired Sanders so much so that he anxiously told the studio, “Don’t give this to anybody else.” “This is the kind of story that I really like.
I like stories that have their strengths in fragile places, and that’s what this had,” Sanders says. “It’s a lot about life, and there’s no real heroes or villains in the story.
Everybody’s just doing their best to survive.” “The Wild Robot” tells the story of a robot named Roz (voiced by Lupita Nyong’o) that is marooned on an uninhabited island.
Over time, Roz learns to adapt to her harsh surroundings, slowly building relationships with the other animals on the island.
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