Lupita Nyong’o stars in animated drama ‘The Wild Robot’

Peter Brown’s award-winning #1 New York Times bestseller, “The Wild Robot,” is coming to the big screen. The film which follows the journey of Roz, a robot that is shipwrecked on an uninhabited island, features the voice talents of Oscar winner Lupita Nyong’o (as Roz), Catherine O’Hara, Pedro Pascal, Mark Hamill, Matt Berry and Ving Rhames.

A story about the discovery of self, the story follows a robot who wakes up for the very first time to find that she’s alone on a remote, wild island. Roz doesn’t know how she got there, or where she came from: she only knows that she wants to stay alive. And by robotically studying her environment she learns everything she needs to know. She learns how to move through the wilderness, how to avoid danger, she even learns how to communicate with the animals. But the most important lesson Roz learns is that kindness can be a survival skill. And she uses kindness to develop friends and a family and a peaceful life for herself. 

The film is written and directed by three-time Oscar nominee Chris Sanders—the writer-director of “How to Train Your Dragon,” “The Croods.” Nyong’o was last seen in the movie “A Quiet Place: Day One” where she played a cancer patient battling aliens.

Peter Brown’s “The Wild Robot” 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.”

By Samantha Ofole-Prince / Photo: Alex J. Berliner/ABImages