Director Chris Sanders reveals his top favorite scene in “The Wild Robot”
- “The Wild Robot” is an upcoming animated science fiction film directed by Chris Sanders.
- The film follows a service robot named Roz, who adapts to an uninhabited island after a shipwreck.
- Sanders shares his favorite sequences from the film, describing the process as a “wonderful problem.”
The upcoming animated science fiction film “The Wild Robot”, directed by Chris Sanders, is set to hit the screens this week. The movie follows the journey of a service robot named Roz (voiced by Lupita Nyong’o) as she tries to adapt to an uninhabited island after a shipwreck, taking on the role of an adoptive mother to an orphaned goose named Brightbill (voiced by Kit Connor).
Ahead of the film’s release, Pinkvilla had an exclusive chat with director Chris Sanders, where he shared his favorite sequences from “The Wild Robot”.
During the conversation, Sanders described the process of choosing his favorite scene as a “wonderful problem,” admitting that he had never worked on a film before where he found himself thinking, “This is my favorite!” and then immediately followed it with, “No, this is my favorite!” for every sequence that came up.
“It may sound like I’m just making that up, but I’m not,” he shared. The director revealed that a pivotal moment in the middle of the movie, when Brightbill has to leave for migration, is a sequence that holds a special place in his heart.
“The scale of that color and the direction of that I thought was just so beautifully done,” Sanders shared. He then explained how he wanted the characters to be standing “in the cool shadows of the morning” right before the sun is just coming up and as “they take flight they touch the golden warm sunlight and there’s a shift in color as they rise.”
Chris Sanders also shared that his ultimate favorite sequence from the movie is the scene that follows the aforementioned moment. “It’s titled ‘The Signal,’ and after the geese leave, Roz has now completed her mission,” he revealed.
“She’s ready to leave the island and the island is going to sleep for the winter,” Sanders added. “The shift in mood and color, is something that I experienced as a kid growing up in Colorado as summer turned to fall. The feeling that you have to capture is a very specific one, it’s very hard to describe. But the artists did something that I thought was unbelievably beautiful during that moment,” he explained.
Sanders described how everything turns quiet in the sequence, with the colors shifting from the browns of fall to greens and grays before the snow begins to fall. He also mentioned how Chris Barrow’s music further “completes the picture” in this scene. “If there’s one part of the film where I would want to live, maybe forever, it would be that moment,” the director concluded.
