Box Office: A Minor Adjustment to the September Release Date for Lupita Nyong'o's Voiced "Wild Robot"
The DreamWorks Animation movie is based on Peter Brown's best-selling book, which tells the story of a robot named Roz who ends up shipwrecked on an island that is unoccupied, at least by humans.
The Wild Robot, an event film from DreamWorks Animation, is rescheduling its September release date. Originally scheduled to debut a week earlier on September 20, the family picture will instead take cinemas on September 27, 2024.
With this change, Wild Robot will now be somewhat apart from Paramount's animated Transformers One, which was rescheduled for September 20 earlier this week.
Chris Sanders' DreamWorks Animation film, which features Lupita Nyong'o as the lead voice, tells the story of a robot named ROZZUM unit 7134, or simply "Roz," who gets stranded on a deserted island and has to learn how to survive in the hostile environment. But over time, she befriends the island's wildlife and takes care of an abandoned young goose.
The Wild Robot is based on the illustrated middle-grade novel of the same name by Peter Brown, which debuted in 2016 and quickly shot to the top of the New York Times bestseller list. Since then, a trilogy featuring The Wild Robot Escapes and The Wild Robot Protects has been inspired by the book.
Among the well-known voice cast members of the film adaption are Pedro Pascal, Bill Nighy, Kit Connor, Catherine O'Hara, and Stephanie Hsu. Mark Hamill, Matt Berry, and Emmy candidate Ving Rhames (of the Mission: Impossible movies and Pulp Fiction) also lend their voices to the movie.
The film, according to DreamWorks Animation, is a potent tale of self-discovery and a study of the relationship between technology and the natural world.
