Midcoast author Peter Brown says he was thrilled to hear that the film "The Wild Robot," inspired by his book, got three Oscar nominations Thursday. But he wasn't surprised. "Director Chris Sanders ...
Writer-director Chris Sanders adapted PeterBrown’s middle grade novel about a smart robot (voiced by Lupita Nyong’o) who gets stranded in the wild, and becomes caretaker for a young gosling.
The epic adventure follows the journey of a robot—ROZZUM unit 7134, “Roz” for short — that is shipwrecked on an uninhabited island and must learn to adapt to the harsh surroundings ...