‘The Wild Robot’ Trailer: Lupita Nyong’o & Pedro Pascal Lead DreamWorks Animation’s Next Adventure

DreamWorks Animation is already behind some of the bigger non-Disney-owned animated film franchises like “Kung Fu Panda,” “Trolls,” and “How To Train Your Dragon.” While “Kung Fu Panda 4” is about to make its way to the big screen this week, the studio is already promoting another film coming out later in the year. Their next project, called “The Wild Robot,” focuses on a sentient robot that finds itself in the middle of an island filled with animals and wilderness. Directed by Chris Sanders (“The Croods,” “How To Train Your Dragon”), the studio has released a first-look trailer (see below) for the pic that is getting a theatrical release from Universal Pictures on September 20.

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Leading the voice cast of “The Wild Robot” includes Oscar-winner Lupita Nyong’o (“Us,” “Black Panther”) as a feisty and inquisitive robot named Roz, rising star Pedro Pascal (The Last of Us, The Mandalorian”) is set in the role of a fox called Fink, comedian Catherine O’Hara (“Schitt’s Creek,” “The Last of Us”) as opossum Pinktail, Bill Nighy (“Love Actually”) as goose Longneck, Kit Connor (“Rocketman”) as gosling Brightbill, Oscar-nominee Stephanie Hsu (“Everything Everywhere All At Once, this summer’s The Fall Guy) as Vontra, another robot that will intersect with Roz’s life on the island.

Mark Hamill (“The Boy & The Heron”), Matt Berry (“What We Do in the Shadows”), and Ving Rhames (‘Mission: Impossible’ films) are other actors lending their voices to the pic.

Based on the best-selling novel by Peter Brown, the film’s synopsis is as follows:

“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.”

Interestingly enough, DreamWorks is turning “How To Train Your Dragon” into a live-action film and could be the start of the studio doing the same with other animated features similar to what Walt Disney Studios has been obsessed with for the past 15 years with varying quality and box office outcomes.