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The Wild Robot author Peter Brown on robots, nature, storytelling
- Author and illustrator Peter Brown talks about his series ‘The Wild Robot’ featuring a robot named Roz that finds itself on an island filled with wild animals, in a special episode of The Robot Report podcast.
- Peter describes the experience of seeing his story adapted into an animated movie by DreamWorks and working with the movie director Chris Sanders to bring Roz to life on the big screen.
- The Wild Robot movie, which is based on the first book in the series, has seen tremendous box office success, having earned more than $320 million worldwide, and is on the top 100 list of the high-grossing animated films of all time.
- Peter talks about the creative writing process and background research he did about robotics to create the plot that led him to the specific characteristics of the robot in the story.
- Peter talks about how he came up with the initial design for Roz and how he determined what she should look like and what capabilities she should have.
- The story is full of heartwarming moments as well as humor, featuring a fish-out-of-water story where Roz is a robot who’s where she doesn’t belong, encountering stuff that she doesn’t know how to handle.
- Peter met regularly with Chris Sanders, the director of the film, and producer Jeff Herman to discuss the project and see the evolution of the project over time during the animation process.
- Peter describes the changes DreamWorks made to the animation, saying he knew they were going to be making lots of cuts and tweaking things.
- None of that surprised him as he knew it’s hard to cram a whole lot into an hour and a half and manage to keep the spirit of the story, which is the main component that drives the story.
- The book series and sequels are bestsellers and have been translated into 30 languages, or maybe more by now.
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