The Wild Robot

The Wild Robot is a 2024 American science-fiction survival film, produced by DreamWorks Animation and distributed by Universal Pictures. It is based on the book series of the same name by Peter Brown. The film's plot follows Roz, a robot shipwrecked on an uninhabited island, must adapt to her surroundings, build relationships with the local wildlife, and become the adoptive mother of an orphaned gosling.

Directed by Chris Sanders. Written by Sanders.

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Roz

Congratulations on your purchase of a Universal Dynamics Robot.
Do you need assistance?
I do not have the programming to be a mother.
Aggression detected. I see your problem.
The processing that used to happens here, is now coming more from here.
He's got to leave this island by fall.
I will protect him.
Sometimes to survive, we must become more than we were programmed to be.
I already have a home. And I am a wild robot.
[last words] Hello, I am Rozzum 7134. But you can call me Roz.

Brightbill

[sighs] Exemplary day for swimming tests.
Processing. Beep, beep, boop, boop.
What happened, was not your fault. But what you did trying to fix is everything. I love you... Mom.

Fink

You need to learn how things work in this island.
Swimming's easy. I can teach him the way my mom taught me. Swim! [kicks Brightbill into the water]
He's a runt. His chances aren't super good.

Vontra

You were not easy to find.
The good people at Universal Dynamics have programmed us to put our targets at ease, so as to more efficiently facilitate their collection. But don't worry. Despite my cheery demeanor, I am unfeeling, inflexible, and morally neutral.
[last words] We will just keep coming until we have you!

Dialogue

[Roz is struggling to get the baby gosling to eat, swim and fly. Just then, Fink, the same red fox that tried to steal the gosling's egg earlier that day, approaches the two of them.]

Fink: [clears throat.] Allow me to introduce myself. Fink: predator and local goose expert, which I know you could use right about now.

[Roz covers the gosling with both her hands.]

Roz: You are the destroyer unit!

Fink: It's okay, I won't eat him.

[Roz suddenly places the gosling next to Fink.]

Fink: Are you crazy?! I might eat him!

[Roz just as quickly picks up the gosling as she did putting it down.]

Roz: You said you would not.

Fink: Do you believe everything you hear?

Roz: Yes.

[A mischievous smirk appears on Fink's face.]

Fink: [chuckles] Noted...

Roz: Why did you steal my gosling?

Fink: I'm a fox. I do foxy things, it's in my nature.

[As he says this, Fink brushes his tail against Roz's legs as he walks between her legs and climbs onto a rock to be at the gosling's level.]

Roz: Your programming?

Fink: Why'd you help me?

Roz: [places the gosling on her shoulder] I'm a robot. I do robot-y things. I seek tasks and ensure all essential needs have been met or exceeded.

[Roz takes a tablet out of her chest to show Fink a guide titled "Rozzum and You." He sniffs it suspiciously before his nose touches the tablet, causing it to move to the next page, displaying the interior of a futuristic home. Fink retracts for a moment, surprised, before touching the tablet again, at which point it shows the next page which has an image of a delicious roast chicken on a silver platter. He gasps, amazed, before giggling excitedly and proceeding to lick and paw at the image of the chicken, babbling hysterically and hungrily.]

Fink: I have some essential needs!

[Roz puts the tablet away.]

Fink and Gosling: Aww!

Roz: Fink, as a local goose expert, how do I get... [picks up the gosling and nods her head at him while making an "mmm" sound] ...to Eat, Swim, Fly?

Fink: [chuckles] I'd thought you'd never ask.

[Roz has finally gotten the gosling to eat by feeding him worms. Meanwhile, Fink is eating some poached clams thanks to Roz boiling some for him by heating up a rockpool with her laser. She then opens her chest cavity, attempting to fix her damaged power core.]

Fink: What's that?

Roz: My power core. It is damaged. Without it, I rely on my solar surfaces and batteries.

Fink: Yeah, you should work on that. [he eats another clam then burps]

Roz: I also need a replacement transmitter.

Fink: Ugh, do I have to do everything? When we come across another robot, we'll kill it... [he smashes two clams together as he says this, before eating them and continuing with his mouth full] ...and take its transmitter.

Roz: Negative. Rozzum inhibition protocols prevent deliberate harm to others.

[A hungry crab advances on the gosling, but Roz keeps pushing it away every time it comes too close.]

Fink: Look, you need to learn how things work on this island.

[Fink pushes the crab into the heated rockpool, boiling it.]

Fink: Me, the bear, everybody, we're all just trying to survive. [he pulls the claws off the boiled crab's body] And kindness is not a survival skill.

[Fink tosses one claw away and eats the other one. Meanwhile the gosling playfully runs around him.]

Fink: Yeah, so, uh, how'd you get a gosling anyway?

Roz: There was an accident. I terminated his family.

[Fink covers the gosling's ears and speaks in a hushed tone.]

Fink: For future reference, you probably want to keep all that to yourself.

Roz: Understood: Do not mention dead family. Fink, how long do you estimate Swim and Fly to take?

Fink: Swimming's easy! [he picks up the gosling with both his front paws] I can teach him the way my mom taught me. SWIM!

[Fink kicks the gosling into the air, who screams before falling into a nearby rockpool with a splash. He smiles back at Roz innocently.]

Roz: Fink!

Fink: Hmm?

Roz: He will not learn that way.

[Roz pulls the gosling out of the rockpool and places him back on dry land.]

Fink: [groans] Not if you keep doing that. [climbs onto Roz's left shoulder] Just between us, this whole thing might not take as long as you think. Your gosling, he isn't exactly normal.

Roz: I have a defective baby?

Fink: He's what they call a runt.

Roz: A runt?

Fink: Fact is, even if his whole family hadn't had been killed, he probably wouldn't have lived very long. Just, I don't know, don't get too attached to the little guy. That's all.

[As they discuss this, the gosling gets a clam snap shut on his head, falls into an anenome's grasp before a seagull pulls him loose. Just then, a wave pushes him back to shore, with a starfish latching onto him before he falls back into the clam and is nearly trampled by more passing gulls. Roz then picks the gosling up and brings him back to her and Fink.]

Fink: If you want, I could eat him right now and save you the grief later!

[Fink stuffs the gosling into his mouth, before Roz grabs her child's legs and pulls him out with some difficulty, with Fink growling a little as she does so.]

Roz: Negative. Eating this task is not the same as completing it!

Fink: Ugh, so we're doing this. Well, if you don't want me or anyone else to eat him... [He attempts to snatch up the gosling in his jaws, but Roz rotates him to the other side of her shoulders to stop him] ...you're gonna need a place that's safer... [He makes another attempt but Roz rotates the gosling again] than out here! [He makes a final attempt and the same thing happens yet again.] Which... is a great idea! [He claps his front paws in mock excitement.] New project!

[Roz stands up, and Fink falls off with a yelp. He burps as he hits the ground, before Roz drags him alongside her as she walks back towards the forest.]

Fink: Is it normal to burp this much? [He then notices the other crab claw he tossed away earlier.] Ooh! [He picks it up, burps again, and eats the second claw as well.]

[Roz projects a hologram blueprint of a nest around the gosling.]

Fink: Seriously? He needs room for me and my stuff!

[Roz enlarges the projection so the nest is as big as a house.]

Fink: Better. Now, you can make one this big, right?

Roz: No task is impossible for Rozzum 7134.

Gosling: Roz... three... seven, three, four?

[Roz leans down to the gosling's eye level as he struggles to say her name.]

Roz: [in a gentle tone] But you can call me Roz.

Gosling: Roz! [giggles] Roz! Roz! Roz! Roz!

[Roz, Fink and the gosling are spending their first night in their new hut. However, Roz is struggling to come up with a name for the gosling, as she can only assign him numbers as if he were also a robot.]

Fink: His name can't have numbers! It's like someone didn't even like him!

Roz: My name has numbers.

Fink: It's got to be personal!

Gosling: Personal!

Roz: Processing personal...

[Roz looks closely at the gosling, her vision highlighting his bright yellow bill.]

Roz: Bright. Bill. Brightbill! [She holds out her hand and the gosling climbs onto it once more.] Is that satisfactory?

Brightbill: Brightbill? [He straightens up, pretending to be a robot.] Processing... beep, beep, boop boop! [He gives a little jump and a smile.] Satisfactory!

[The seasons have changed, and Brightbill is now an adolescent goose. He walks through the tall grass, mimicking Roz as he takes slow steps and makes whirring noises with his mouth. Eventually, he stops, mimicking the sound of a machine braking with a hiss.]

Brightbill: Scanning. [looks from left to right robotically before he notices a squirrel eating some acorns, then starts making beeping sounds] Possible animal friend sighted. [crouches, mimicking a robotic whoosh as he does so, before moving his wings back and forth like a machine] Activating interspecies outreach protocol.

[Brightbill pokes his head out from the tall grass while making a robotic whirring sound. The squirrel looks round, confused by his unusual method of approach]

Brightbill: Hello! Bonjour! Hujambo! I am Gosling 0186, but you can call me Bright-

[The squirrel interrupts him with a scream, alarmed by Brightbill's behaviour before running in the opposite direction, leaving four of its acorns behind. Brightbill sighs glumly as Roz emerges from the grass next to him.]

Brightbill: I expected to have at least one friend by summer but they all just-

Roz: Scream and run?

Brightbill: [smiles back at her] Yes!

Roz: I have experienced the same phenomenon.

[Roz puts a finger under her chin while she says this, thinking, and Brightbill does the same with his right wing. Fink then emerges from the trees.]

Roz: Fink?

Fink: [sarcastically] Beats me. Nothing weird about you two.

Roz: Thank you.