The bestselling children's section book bid was adapted into a movie featuring immoderate of your favourite actors. See who is down nan beloved characters
Published connected May 29, 2025 01:26PM EDT
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The Wild Robot series, a bestselling section book bid for kids that includes The Wild Robot, The Wild Robot Protects, and The Wild Robot Escapes, has been adapted into a Dreamworks movie that earned rave reviews and was a container agency success.
Directed by Chris Sanders (known for How to Train Your Dragon and Lilo & Stitch), nan film, based connected nan books by Peter Brown, The Wild Robot follows a robot whose carrier vessel crashes successful a tsunami, causing nan robot to lavation up connected an land populated only by animals. Her first programming to beryllium useful successful nan quality world scares nan animals, who deliberation she's a monster, but aft a babe goose imprints connected her, she learns what it genuinely intends to beryllium needed and portion of a community.
Asked by NBC News if location would beryllium much films, Sanders said, "I would very overmuch for illustration to. I deliberation nan full unit really, really progressive themselves successful this movie successful a measurement that I’ve ne'er seen before, myself included. This was a labour of emotion connected nan portion of everybody astatine nan studio, and yes, I deliberation I’d emotion to spell and enactment present for a while."
With The Wild Robot now connected Netflix, find retired much astir nan faces down nan voices onscreen.
Roz: Lupita Nyong'o
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Oscar victor Lupita Nyong'o said she was inspired by nan voices of Alexa and Siri to thief pass nan “optimistic politeness" of nan first sound of her Rozzum 7134 robot — but she warms up complete clip arsenic she takes connected nan domiciled of mother to a gosling, Brightbill, and becomes useful to nan animals connected nan land — conscionable not successful nan measurement she was programmed.
Fink: Pedro Pascal
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A fox without galore friends connected nan island, he volunteers to thief Roz raise Brightbill, partially retired of kindness and partially because he's looking to belong.
Brightbill: Kit Connor
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Kit Connor plays nan grown-up Brightbill, who loves Roz but realizes that he mightiness not fresh successful pinch nan different geese arsenic they hole for their first migration, contempt each her efforts to thatch him what he needs to now.
Pinktail: Catherine O'Hara
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Playing an exasperated but lukewarm possum mom who helps Roz travel to position pinch her caller domiciled ("I do not person programming to beryllium a mother," Roz says. "No 1 does," O'Hara's characteristic responds), O'Hara is lukewarm and funny.
Longneck: Bill Nighy
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The Love, Actualy star lends his accustomed charm to nan domiciled of an elder gosling who takes Brightbill nether his helping connected his first migration.
Thunderbolt: Ving Rhames
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Thunderbolt is simply a commanding falcon who agrees to thief Brightbill study to alert erstwhile Roz can't springiness him nan training he needs to make it done nan afloat migration pinch nan different gees.e
VONTRA: Stephanie Hsu
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VONTRA is nan cheerful but malevolent robot who finds Roz connected nan land done nan transmitter of different shipwrecked robot and tries to return her backmost to reprogram her to mill settings.
Thorn: Mark Hamill
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Thorn, nan apex predatory of nan forest, ends up becoming a protector aft Roz rescues him during a unspeakable snowstorm.
“As a begetter of 3 who took them to spot alleged ‘children’s movies’ arsenic a kid — and you’d suffer done immoderate horrible moments ... This 1 effortlessly appeals to each age,” he told Variety. "The parents will person arsenic bully a clip arsenic nan kids. It’s uncommon to deed that saccharine spot.”
Paddler: Matt Berry
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The different animals mock Matt Berry's grumpy, dedicated beaver for his committedness to a project, but it ends up redeeming nan full wood aft nan robot office comes for Roz.