{"id":370006,"date":"2026-03-06T00:14:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T00:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/370006\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T00:14:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T00:14:09","slug":"a-sequel-to-the-wild-robot-is-finally-moving-ahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/370006\/","title":{"rendered":"A Sequel to ‘The Wild Robot’ Is Finally Moving Ahead"},"content":{"rendered":"

Time to touch the sky, Wild Robot fans<\/a>. News of its sequel is finally here<\/a>, and we couldn\u2019t be more excited.<\/p>\n

Released in 2024, The Wild Robot was io9\u2019s pick for the best film of that year<\/a>. Based on a novel by Peter Brown and written and directed by animation legend Chris Sanders,<\/a> it\u2019s a stunning work and brought us immense joy. Now, the Wrap<\/a> reports that Brown\u2019s second book in the series, The Wild Robot Escapes, is in development from DreamWorks Animation, but Sanders won\u2019t return to direct. He\u2019s adapting the screenplay and handing the reins to Troy Quane, one of the directors who made Nimona<\/a>. The head of story on the first film, Heidi Jo Gilbert, will be a co-director.<\/p>\n

That first film, which featured Lupita Nyong\u2019o as the voice of Roz, along with Pedro Pascal, Bill Nighy, Stephanie Hsu, Matt Berry, Ving Rhames, Mark Hamill, and the late, great Catherine O\u2019Hara, ended in a very fitting, conclusive way, but there\u2019s always room for more story. In the second novel, Roz is assigned to a dairy farm, where she eventually reveals to the animals there that she\u2019s more than just a robot. Things take a turn, and her son Brightbill returns to help save her and the other animals.<\/p>\n

No word yet on who might be returning voice-wise, but you can\u2019t really make the movie without Nyong\u2019o as Roz. Whatever the case, though, as super fans<\/a> of the original film, this is great news. It\u2019s certainly a bummer that Sanders won\u2019t be directing again, but at least he\u2019s writing. Plus, he is kind of famous for directing iconic animated films only to turn them over to other artists for the sequels. (See also Lilo & Stitch, How to Train Your Dragon, and The Croods.) We just can\u2019t wait to spend more time with these characters again, and, hopefully, the sequel captures just an ounce of the magic of the original.<\/p>\n

By the way, if you haven\u2019t seen the original, get on that right now. It\u2019s a masterpiece. It\u2019s currently on Netflix,<\/a> for a little while longer at least.<\/p>\n

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Want more io9 news? Check out when to expect the latest Marvel<\/a>, Star Wars<\/a>, and Star Trek<\/a> releases, what\u2019s next for the DC Universe on film and TV<\/a>, and everything you need to know about the future of Doctor Who<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Time to touch the sky, Wild Robot fans. News of its sequel is finally here, and we couldn\u2019t…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":370007,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[263],"tags":[18,117,19,17,327,171202,171203,171204,171205],"class_list":["post-370006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-eire","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-movies","tag-the-wild-robot","tag-the-wild-robot-2","tag-the-wild-robot-escapes","tag-troy-quane"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116179347933643913","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=370006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/370007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}