Wall-E Facts
WALL-E (promoted with a stylized hyphen as WALL•E) is a
2008 computer animated science fiction film produced by Pixar Animation
Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures. The film, which follows the
romance between two robots in the future, will be released on June 27,
2008.[2] The film is being directed by Andrew Stanton, whose previous
film, Finding Nemo, won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature. Jim
Morris, who previously worked for Lucasfilm, will be the producer. Most of
the characters will not have human voices, but will communicate with
sounds (designed by Ben Burtt) which resemble voices. Thomas Newman, who
composed Finding Nemo, will reunite with Stanton to compose the film's
score.
WALL-E is an acronym for Waste
Allocation Load Lifter Earth Class.
According to John Lasseter in a presentation to Disney corporate
investors:
“ WALL-E is the story of the last little robot on Earth. He is a robot and
his programming was to help clean up. You see, it's set way in the future.
Through consumerism, rampant, unchecked consumerism, the Earth was covered
with trash. And to clean up, everyone had to leave Earth and set in place
millions of these little robots that went around to clean up the trash and
make Earth habitable again.
Well, the cleanup program failed with the exception of this one little
robot and he's left on Earth doing his duty all alone. He doesn't know he
can't stop working. But it's not a story about science fiction. It's a
love story, because, you see, WALL·E falls in love with EVE, a robot from
a probe that comes down to recover the last plant left on Earth, which
curious little Wall-E has picked up. He absolutely falls in love with
her."
