When I first heard about Disney/Pixar’s Wall”¢E early last year, I said, “I can already tell that Pixar’s Wall”¢E will be my new favorite animated movie.” Well, a year later, I feel even stronger that it will not only be my new favorite animated movie, but probably one of my favorite movies ever.
In Wall”¢E, the Earth has become overrun with trash, causing the humans to leave the planet. But when they left, they forgot to shut off the last clean-up robot, a Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-Class — WALL”¢E. WALL”¢E continues to do as he’s been programmed, cleaning up day after day for hundreds of years all by himself, until one day, EVE — a new class of robot — arrives on Earth.
Wall”¢E‘s producer, Jim Morris, showed some new footage from the film at the New York Comic Con on Saturday, April 19. Between showings of the previous released trailers as well as several new clips from the film, Morris told the audience that the film’s director, Andrew Stanton, pitched him the animated tale to him by saying, “Imagine everybody leaves the Earth and they forgot to turn the last robot off” and that was enough for him to sign on. Morris said he was attracted to the Robinson Crusoe aspect and that he was glad that it was not about a wise-cracking robot. Morris then brought on Ben Burtt to do the film, as well as some other crew members. Their plans was to have this film look and sound like no other animated movie, while also honoring the great traditions of scifi.
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When I first heard about Disney/Pixar’s Wall”¢E early last year, I said, “I can already tell that Pixar’s Wall”¢E will be my new favorite animated movie.” Well, a year later, I feel even stronger that it will not only be my new favorite animated movie, but probably one of my favorite movies ever.
We here at Geeks of Doom are giving two (2) of our readers the opportunity to win a copy of Totally Baked on DVD, signed by Brian Johnson of AC/DC, who is one of the film’s producers.
