Chris Sanders, one of the directors who brought us the wildly popular How to Train Your Dragon film franchise, is looking to make another animated splash at DreamWorks with The Wild Robot.
Opening in theaters everywhere this September, the project — adapting the bestselling book of the same name written by Peter Brown — stars Academy Award-winner Lupita Nyong’o (Black Panther) as Roz, an inquisitive robot shipwrecked on a remote island, where she becomes the adoptive parent of an orphaned gosling named Brightbill (His Dark Materials‘ Kit Connor). “I’m the runt of the litter and have to find my way as a half-goose, half-robot to a certain extent,” Connor told MTV‘s Josh Horowitz at this past weekend’s San Diego Comic-Con.
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