We take a first look at The Wild Robot with a special featurette

Discover the incredible animation from story to screen with the talent behind The Wild Robot, coming soon to cinemas nationwide. Read our review.

From DreamWorks Animation, The Wild Robot is a powerful story of the discovery of self, a thrilling examination of the bridge between technology and nature and a moving exploration of what it means to be alive and connected to all living things. Written and directed by three-time Oscar® nominee Chris Sanders—the writer-director of DreamWorks Animation’s How to Train Your Dragon, The Croods, and Disney’s Lilo & Stitch—and produced by Jeff Hermann (DreamWorks Animation’s The Boss Baby 2: Family Business), The Wild Robot, based on Peter Brown’s beloved, award-winning, #1 New York Times bestseller arrives in cinemas this Autumn. 

The epic adventure follows the journey of a robot—ROZZUM unit 7134, “Roz” for short — that is shipwrecked on an uninhabited island and 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 Wild Robot stars Academy Award® winner Lupita Nyong’o (The Black Panther) as robot Roz; Emmy and Golden Globe nominee Pedro Pascal (The Mandalorian) as fox Fink; Emmy winner Catherine O’Hara (Home Alone) as opossum Pinktail; Oscar® nominee Bill Nighy (Love Actually) as goose Longneck; Kit Connor (Heartstopper) as gosling Brightbill and Oscar® nominee Stephanie Hsu (The Fall Guy) as Vontra, a robot that will intersect with Roz’s life on the island. 

The film also features the voice talents of Emmy-winning pop-culture icon Mark Hamill (Star Wars), Matt Berry (What We Do in the Shadows) and Golden Globe winner and Emmy nominee Ving Rhames (Mission Impossible). 

Peter Brown’s The Wild Robot, an illustrated middle-grade novel first published in 2016, became a phenomenon, rocketing to #1 on the New York Times bestseller list. The book has since inspired a trilogy that now includes “The Wild Robot Escapes” and “The Wild Robot Protects”. Brown’s work on the Wild Robot series and his other bestselling books have earned him a Caldecott Honor, a Horn Book Award, two E.B. White Awards, two E.B. White Honors, a Children’s Choice Award for Illustrator of the Year, two Irma Black Honors, a Golden Kite Award and a New York Times Best Illustrated Book Award.