Sanders dropped back into DreamWorks Animation, where he immediately zeroed in on Peter Brown's book "The Wild Robot." He had no idea that the studio had the rights for around four years.

“The Wild Robot” director Chris Sanders was feeling a little lost himself. In 2020, he ventured into live-action filmmaking with “The Call of the Wild,” an ambitious, imperfect adaptation ...

When director Chris Sanders decided to take on The Wild Robot, the script had been at DreamWorks Animation for a few years. In what he deems to be a stroke of luck, Sanders came in at the perfect ...

When filmmaker Chris Sanders began to imagine what his fifth animated film, “The Wild Robot,” might look like on the big screen, he was stuck on one crucial idea: how to turn Peter Brown’s ...

Chris Sanders, the writer and director of The Wild Robot, came of age at Disney during the era of laborious hand-drawn animation. He’s seen major changes in the industry since then, and he ...

“The Wild Robot” has clearly struck a chord. The DreamWorks Animation feature, written and directed by Chris Sanders, stars Lupita Nyong’o as a robot (she calls herself Roz) who washes ...

"Wild Robot" writer-director Chris Sanders and creative collaborators will discuss the film at the 2024 VIEW Conference in Turin, Italy, this fall.

Filmmaker Chris Sanders was visiting DreamWorks Animation to see what was in development, when he came across Peter Brown’s novel “The Wild Robot.“ The first few sentences of Brown’s story ...

THE WILD ROBOT. Section: Gala Presentations Director: Chris Sanders Screenwriter: Chris Sanders Logline: Featuring the voices of Pedro Pascal, Catherine O’Hara, Lupita Nyong’o, Stephanie Hsu ...