The Wild Robot sequel is already in production at Dreamworks

Dreamworks Animation’s The Wild Robot is already shaping up to be one of the best and most popular animated movies of 2024, which led moviegoers to wonder if it’s ever going to get a sequel.

The film’s director, Chris Sanders, recently spoke with Deadline and said “100% yes there are absolutely plans for a second one,” further confirming that the studio is already working on the next chapter in Roz’s adventures. This shouldn’t be a surprise, seeing as how the original movie has received endless praise from both critics and fans and has been a huge box office success, with more than 100 million dollars grossed worldwide.

It’s also great news that Chris Sanders is aware of these plans because it most likely means that he’s also involved in the development of the sequel. After all, he’s the award-winning director of several critically acclaimed animated classics, like Lilo & Stitch and How To Train Your Dragon, so Dreamworks should definitely keep him around for The Wild Robot sequel. Unfortunately, the studio confirmed last year that it won’t develop films in-house anymore, and will outsource them to third-party studios instead, so there’s no guarantee that the talented animation team will return as well.

What will The Wild Robot 2 be about?

Fans reacted to the confirmation of a sequel with a lot of excitement, with many of them already trying to guess what will the next movie be about. Unbeknownst to some people, The Wild Robot is actually based on the Peter Brown novel of the same name, and the author also wrote two follow-ups, titled The Wild Robot Escapes and The Wild Robot Protects, respectively.

As many fans have proposed, Dreamworks could make not one but two more movies based on the other two books and potentially end up developing an entire trilogy of The Wild Robot films. At the end of the day, the studio is famous for making some of the best animated trilogies in the industry, like the How To Train Your Dragon trilogy or the Kung Fu Panda trilogy. So, if Dreamworks decides to follow this plan, it could result in yet another legendary trilogy of classic animated films.