Starring Oscar winner Lupita Nyong’o, Golden Globe winner Pedro Pascal, and Emmy Award winner Kit Connor, the animated movie The Wild Robot follows Rozzum 7134, a service robot who crash-lands on an uninhabited island. After attempting to initiate a return to the factory she came from, the robot soon becomes the adoptive mother to a gosling and befriends a wily fox. 

The 2024 film received three Academy Award nominations, including Best Animated Feature Film, becoming film studio DreamWorks’ most Oscar-nominated film. It also received three Golden Globes nominations, including a nod for Best Motion Picture, Animated. 

From director Chris Sanders, whose films include the live-action Lilo & Stitch and How to Train Your Dragon, The Wild Robot is based on the New York Times bestselling book of the same name by Peter Brown. The film also stars Emmy winner Catherine O’Hara, Oscar nominee Bill Nighy, Oscar nominee Stephanie Hsu, BAFTA winner Mark Hamill, Emmy nominee Matt Berry, and Emmy nominee Ving Rhames. 

Where can I watch The Wild Robot?

Stream it on Netflix now.

Who’s in the voice cast of The Wild Robot?

• Lupita Nyong’o (A Quiet Place: Day One) as Rozzum 7134, aka Roz
• Pedro Pascal (The Last of Us) as Fink
• Kit Connor (Heartstopper) as Gosling 0186, aka Brightbill
• Bill Nighy (The Beautiful Game) as Longneck
• Stephanie Hsu (Everything Everywhere All at Once) as Vontra
• Mark Hamill (The Fall of the House of Usher) as Thorn
• Catherine O’Hara (Beetlejuice Beetlejuice) as Pinktail
• Matt Berry (What We Do in the Shadows) as Paddler
• Ving Rhames (Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning) as Thunderbolt

What happens in The Wild Robot?

When Rozzum 7134, aka Roz, washes up on the shores of a mysterious island, she’s intent on finding whoever ordered her. You see, Roz is a service robot, and her only job is to complete tasks for others. But in this new place inhabited only by wild animals, she can’t seem to understand what anyone’s saying, and no one seems to have sent her there. 

Roz’s attempts to get a signal so she can head back to the factory she’s from don’t go as planned, especially as the animals see her as a threat and try to destroy her. So she hunkers down and switches herself into learning mode: It’s time for Roz to incorporate some new languages into her system. When she does, she’s able to commune with every creature on the island — even Fink, a deceptive fox who encounters Roz as she’s trying to secure the only remaining egg in a bird’s nest she crashed into. Roz ensures the egg doesn’t end up as Fink’s dinner just before it hatches … and out pops a tiny gosling. 

From then on, Roz’s only mission is to teach the gosling, whom she names Brightbill, how to swim, eat, and fly in time for him to migrate from the island in the fall. Along the way, the robot, Brightbill, and sneaky Fink become an inseparable makeshift family. 

Is The Wild Robot based on a book?

Yes. The film is based on the book of the same name by Peter Brown. 

Where does The Wild Robot take place?

The film takes place on an unnamed island. 

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