Does The Wild Robot Have a Post-Credits Scene? Everything to Know
Lupita Nyong'o and Pedro Pascal star in the epic new film from DreamWorks Animation.
**SPOILER ALERT! This article contains spoilers about plot points and the viewing experience for The Wild Robot. If you haven’t watched yet, proceed with caution.**
Director Chris Sanders found the perfect note upon which to end The Wild Robot.
The latest film from DreamWorks Animation tapped Lupita Nyong’o (Us, Black Panther, 12 Years a Slave) to voice Roz, a positive and solution-oriented robot who finds herself deserted on an island and tasked with a difficult endeavor: motherhood.
The Academy Award winner told NBC Insider that working on an animated film is very different than working on a live action one.
“I like acting, period,” Nyong’o said, noting she wouldn't be able to choose one over the other. “I like the different challenges that the different mediums give me. So in animation, all you have is your voice, and you get to use your body to create the most dimensional voice you can and I learned so much about my voice in the process, and I was able to, you know, contort my body in all sorts of crazy ways in order to achieve the vocal quality I wanted."
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Nyong’o also loved the idea of working with Sanders (Lilo & Stitch, How to Train Your Dragon). Every time they were in the voiceover booth, Nyong’o says she felt like they were “carving something together.”
“It was so much because Chris is so open,” Nyong’o said. “He really is happy to workshop things and reconsider things and he’ll throw out his idea and welcome yours.”
Does The Wild Robot have a post-credits scene?
Yes! The Wild Robot does show an extra scene after the credits roll - so be sure to stick around to see!
Fink the fox (Pedro Pascal) and Paddler the beaver (Matt Berry) are shown planting a sapling in the aftermath of the events of the film. Though their efforts are well-intentioned, another animal mocks the size of their small tree. To find out who, you’ll just have to watch until the end of the movie.
“I really wanted to do that because there’s a particular thing that happens in the film, where a tree meets its demise, and it’s an amazing tree,” Sanders said with a laugh. “It was a critical thing in the story to get the story to work and even though it’s an animated tree that was just painted, it still felt bad to me that it fell down, so I thought it would be really sweet if at the end of the movie, we saw this little sapling… being planted.”
While the hopeful, lighthearted scene is quick, it’s not the only reason to stay through the credits. The names of the cast, crew, and animators are superimposed over beautiful animation of various animals and nature.
The Wild Robot's "Groundbreaking" Painted Animation Style
Sanders found the movie's take on Peter Brown’s beloved book to be a “breakthrough.”
“A lot of this you haven’t ever seen. DreamWorks Animation had made some huge advances as far as the look of the films that they were making with Puss in Boots: The Last Wish and with Bad Guys in getting a more illustrated style up onto the screen. We were always striving to get away from that sort of CG look,” Sanders told NBC Insider. “It was really important to me that we get a more of an illustrated look up on screen so that people saw this in the right way, because Peter Brown’s story, it needed, I think, this kind of a sophistication in order to resonate properly.”
Everything seen on screen was painted by hand, Sanders said.
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“That’s a return in a weird way, or in a wonderful way, to animation’s origins,” Sanders said. “It’s a very, very handmade film. Even the characters have completely hand painted surfaces.”
Sanders encourages audiences to see the film on the big screen if they can.
“Visually it is groundbreaking,” Sanders said. “They will have never seen anything like this before.”
The Wild Robot is out in theaters now. Get tickets now!
