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The first trailer for ''WALL-E'' debuted with the theatrical release of [[Ratatouille (film)|''Ratatouille'']], using the track |
The first trailer for ''WALL-E'' debuted with the theatrical release of [[Ratatouille (film)|''Ratatouille'']], following Pixar's tradition of each theatrical release including the first trailer for the next film. The trailer starts with a talk about how ''WALL-E'' is the last of a collection of ideas for films, the others being ''[[A Bug's Life]]'', ''[[Monsters Inc.]]'' and ''[[Finding Nemo]]''. The trailer then shifts to footage from the film, using the track "Central Services/The Office" (based around the song "[[Aquarela do Brasil]]") from ''[[Michael Kamen]]'s'' soundtrack to [[Brazil (film)|''Brazil'']] as background music. |
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A commercial for the WALL-E robot series is included in the ''[[Ratatouille (video game)|Ratatouille]]'' video game. It shows that WALL-E stands for '''W'''aste '''A'''llocation '''L'''oad '''L'''ifter - '''E'''arth-class and is sold by the Buy n Large Corporation. The slogan is "Working to dig you out." There is a disclaimer at the end that mentions [http://www.buynlarge.com/ www.buynlarge.com], a web site for the company. |
A commercial for the WALL-E robot series is included in the ''[[Ratatouille (video game)|Ratatouille]]'' video game. It shows that WALL-E stands for '''W'''aste '''A'''llocation '''L'''oad '''L'''ifter - '''E'''arth-class and is sold by the Buy n Large Corporation. The slogan is "Working to dig you out." There is a disclaimer at the end that mentions [http://www.buynlarge.com/ www.buynlarge.com], a web site for the company. |
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| WALL-E | |
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| Directed by | Andrew Stanton |
| Written by | Andrew Stanton |
| Produced by | Jim Morris John Lasseter Peter Docter |
| Distributed by | Walt Disney Pictures Pixar Animation Studios |
Release dates |  June 27, 2008 July 18 2008 |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
WALL-E is a CGI animated feature film produced by Pixar Animation Studios released by Walt Disney Pictures. The film, which has a robot as its title character, will be released on June 27, 2008.[1] 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.
Premise
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 that 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. 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 check on Earth, and she's left there to check on and see how things are going and he absolutely falls in love with her.[2]
Production
Andrew Stanton developed WALL-E before Toy Story was made:[3] the original idea was, "What if mankind evacuated Earth and forgot to turn off the last remaining robot?"[4] After directing Finding Nemo, Stanton felt, "[W]e had really achieved the physics of believing you were really under water, so I said 'Hey, let’s do that with air.' Let’s fix our lenses, let’s get the depth of field looking exactly how anamorphic lenses work and do all these tricks that make us have the same kind of dimensionality that we got on Nemo with an object out in the air and on the ground.'"[3]
The design of WALL-E and Eve came about by Stanton telling his designers, "See it as an appliance first, and then read character into it."[3] There is no traditional dialogue in the film; Stanton joked, "I’m basically making R2-D2: The Movie", in reference to sound designer Ben Burtt's work on Star Wars. To create dialogue, Burtt took various mechanical sounds, and combined them to resemble dialogue.[4] Producer Jim Morris added that the film was animated so that it would feel "as if there really was a cameraman."[5]
Marketing
The first trailer for WALL-E debuted with the theatrical release of Ratatouille, following Pixar's tradition of each theatrical release including the first trailer for the next film. The trailer starts with a talk about how WALL-E is the last of a collection of ideas for films, the others being A Bug's Life, Monsters Inc. and Finding Nemo. The trailer then shifts to footage from the film, using the track "Central Services/The Office" (based around the song "Aquarela do Brasil") from Michael Kamen's soundtrack to Brazil as background music.
A commercial for the WALL-E robot series is included in the Ratatouille video game. It shows that WALL-E stands for Waste Allocation Load Lifter - Earth-class and is sold by the Buy n Large Corporation. The slogan is "Working to dig you out." There is a disclaimer at the end that mentions www.buynlarge.com, a web site for the company.
References
- ^ Information from Variety regarding producer Jim Morris and the release date
- ^ "2007 Disney Conference - Studio Presentation" (PDF). Disney Enterprises. 2007-02-08. Retrieved 2007-08-06.
{{cite news}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ a b c Eric Vespe (2007-08-11). "Quint sits down with WALL-E director Andrew Stanton!!!". Ain't It Cool News. Retrieved 2007-08-11.
{{cite news}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ a b Eric Vespe (2007-08-01). "Quint catches up on Disney's Prince Caspian and WALL-E panel at Comic-Con!!!". Ain't It Cool News. Retrieved 2007-08-01.
{{cite news}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ Tom Ambrose (2007-07-26). "Heroes of 2008". Empire. p. 72.
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