Who's Involved:
Release Date:
Friday, September 27, 2024 Nationwide
action/peril and thematic elements
Plot: What's the story about?
When robot Roz opens her eyes for the first time, she discovers that she is alone on a remote, wild island. Why is she there? Where did she come from? And, most important, how will she survive in her harsh surroundings? Roz’s only hope is to learn from the island’s hostile animal inhabitants. When she tries to care for an orphaned gosling, the other animals finally decide to help, and the island starts to feel like home. Until one day, the robot’s mysterious past comes back to haunt her…
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Who stars in The Wild Robot: Cast List
Lupita Nyong'o ... (voice)
A Quiet Place: Day One, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Bill Nighy ... (voice)
Gracie and Pedro: Pets to the Rescue, That Christmas
Catherine O'Hara ... (voice)
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, Argylle
Stephanie Hsu ... (voice)
The Fall Guy, Leo
Pedro Pascal ... (voice)
Gladiator II, Fantastic Four: The First Steps
Who's making The Wild Robot: Crew List
A look at the The Wild Robot behind-the-scenes crew and production team. The film's director Chris Sanders last directed The Call of the Wild and The Croods. The film's writer Chris Sanders last wrote The Croods: A New Age and The Croods.
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Production: What we know about The Wild Robot?
Key Facts
- 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.
- The film also features the voice talents of Emmy winning pop-culture icon Mark Hamill (Star Wars franchise, The Boy and the Heron), Matt Berry (What We Do in the Shadows, The SpongeBob Movie franchise) and Golden Globe winner and Emmy nominee Ving Rhames (Mission: Impossible films, Pulp Fiction).
- Based on the children's book by Peter Brown.
Filming Timeline
- 2024 - June: The film was set to Completed status.
- 2024 - January: The film was set to Post-Production status.
The Wild Robot Release Date: When was the film released?
The Wild Robot was a Nationwide release in 2024 on Friday, September 27, 2024. There were 22 other movies released on the same date, including Lee, Megalopolis and Notice to Quit.