To be honest, though, any simple description cant do it justice.
You really do have to see it for yourself.
But first, read our gushing with Sanders and Hermann below.
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Germain Lussier, io9: Gentlemen, I love this movie.
Jeff Hermann:Oh my God.
Chris Sanders:Thank you so much.
The Wild Robotis amazing. Image: DreamWorks/Universal
io9: I really love it.
This has the potential to really be something special, maybe even better than we expected?
Sanders:We should both answer this.
Image: DreamWorks/Universal
But I was also worried because it was so different looking.
Im used to the look now, but at that point, I was like, Oh my God.
Have we gone too far?
Image: DreamWorks/Universal
Is it too impressionistic?
Is it too painterly?
Is it too loose?
It was like we had something absolutely groundbreaking.
And then I was super excited to go forward.
What we saw in our minds.
Is it going to work?
And its the flying montage.
And then the second time, knowing it was coming, the anticipation made me cry even more.
Its just so beautiful.
We also had just the story that we were dealing with.
We also had songs that we were going to place over the whole thing.
That was the most important sequence in the film up to that point.
So that whole thing, I think, Kris Bowers gets a lot of credit there.
Hermann:He does, he does.
And what we found was we needed it to cover a six-and-a-half, almost seven-minute span of the film.
So originally we were just placing the song over the first third of that training montage.
Like I said, its absolutely incredible.
So that was spectacularly cool.
I was like, absolutely, 100%.
So that one I havent seen the finish yet.
Its still in flux.
Ive seen a lot moreDragons.
So Im definitely excited about both of them.
io9: But can you even imagine them happening?
Like forTransformers Onea producer said that movie could cost like $200 billion in live-action.
Hermann:Thats curious.
Adapting this movie would be like a little bit like when they didLion King.
Hermann:Animation going to another form of animation.
Sanders:But its still animation.
So that wouldnt be super far away from where we are right now.
So thats one of the big plusses I think in getting that.
So certainly theres a place to go.
And then withLilo & Stitch,again, there was no CG back then.
So theres a lot of stuff that could be done as far as like just cinematically pushing it.
Theres no green light, right?
Sanders:Yeah, its not green-lit yet.
Weve all read the book series because we wanted to know where the series was going.
And you would still feel something very powerfully at the end.
She never got reset.
We wanted to confirm that for everybody.
Sanders:You know, I think Ive got a better shot this time than I ever had.
[Laughs] You know, whenLilo & Stitchcame up, that was my first nomination.
And there was this other guy named Miyazaki that was also nominated.
Im like, Im not going to really bother wasting my time writing an acceptance speech.
[Laughs]
io9: Well, Im pulling for you guys and congratulations on the movie.
Thank you so much for everything.
The Wild Robotis still in theaters and is also available on demand.
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