The idea for Wall-E started with the question, "What ifmankind had to leave Earth and somebody forgot to turn the last robot off?"Stanton said. Later scenes with the human spaceship's automatic pilot,named Auto, were reminiscent of HAL in 2001: A Space Odyssey.In a gesture of recognition to the 1979 film Alien, the producers castSigourney Weaver as the ship's computer. The film includes many nods to science and science fiction.When Wall-E escapes Earth by hitchhiking on EVE's spaceship, he bumps intoSputnik and copious space debris on his way out. That became one of the key design elements for the main character.?įor research, the filmmakers and animators went to roboticsconferences and visited NASA scientists at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.To imagine what humans would look like after atrophying for hundreds of yearsin space, the team talked to NASA experts about the effects of zero gravity onthe body. He suddenly became aware thatif he tilted them slightly, you got a very different look and feeling out ofthem. "He had been to abaseball game and was using a pair of binoculars. "Andrew came in one day withthe inspiration for WALL?E's eyes," he said. Jason Deamer, the film's character art director, recalledhow the team figured out ways to communicate WALL?E's feelings. Nonetheless, each electronic critter brims withuniqueness, purpose, and emotion. When WALL?E arrives at the human outpost, he meets theeclectic gaggle of robots keeping the ship in working order.Īll the robots in the film retain their robot-ness ? theanimators never resort to sticking googly eyes or a grinning mouth on a machineto give it a personality. In this vision of a future, it takes a robot to remind humansof their humanity.
Thus begins a quest through space as WALL?E chases EVE backto the human's hideout ? a giant ship where people are so pampered and lazy,they can't even walk and must be transported around on floating inner-tubes. When EVE, the Extra-terrestrial Vegetation Evaluator, landsto scan Earth for signs of flora or fauna, it is love at first sight ? for WALL?E,at least. Over the years of collecting left-over human trinkets andwatching a video of Hello, Dolly! on repeat, WALL?E comes to long forcompanionship beyond his squeaky sidekick ? a cockroach.
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