Upcoming Pixar reported confirmation of Fred Willard’s role in WALL•E. He is the first person to star live in a Pixar film. Neato!
To learn more about this grand WALL•E update, read the full article over at Rotten Tomatoes.
Thank you for the info, bawpcwpn! 
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Wow, a real Pixar first then! Fred Willard must feel pretty honoured, to say the least! Thanks for the information, PV and bawpcwpn!
I read about this on Upcoming Pixar. I like Fred Willard , so you can guess that I was pretty excited when I found out that he would be in WALL-E . But this makes me even more excited. Thanks for bringing this up again, PV . Oh , and thanks to bawpcwpn for reporting this in the first place on Upcoming Pixar.
Am I the only person that’s not excited about live actors in a Pixar film?
Come on ladies and gentlemen, creative people at Pixar are too smart to ruin a potential masterpiece with some inept insert of live action footage (a la Happy Feet)!
Remember that Fred Willard character will only appear on monitors.
As I told a few posts ago, I’ve got a friend in the videogame industry. He or she is not willing to give away spoilers(contractual obligation I suppose) but confirmed that live action integration is very well made , inspired and truly not invasive.
Anyway as you may already know Wall-e owns a vcr ,but only a vhs of Hello Dolly survived and actual footage from that movie will be also shown ,so Willard is not the only actor we’ll see in Wall-e.
To me that’s ok .
PS: maybe Pixar is trying to get also best sfx and best supp actor nods eh eh eh!
Yeah, I think it’s a great idea, and how could Pixar ruin it???
I’m very excited to see what it’ll be like.
Well, at first I was a bit hesitant of the fact that Pixar would have live-action characters. But I’m glad that they are just having him on a monitor. That effect can have a tendency to look cheesy, but the thing with Pixar is they would only do it if it enhances the story, so I trust them because they know what they are doing. 
It’s good that they are trying new things because, as you may already know, Pixar’s motto is “keep moving forward.”
I believe Cornelius Robinson would object. 
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I was also a little suspicious of this introduction of a live actor in a Pixar film, but if Disney can do it then so can Pixar. I’m quite anxious to see how they pull it off now!
You know, this kind of reminds me of the good ol’ days when Disney blended live action footage of people with animated characters and/or environments. I suppose that this is Pixar’s way of doing that very technique, only in a three-dimensional format. Pretty cool! I’m all for it.
I highly doubt it. Pixar’s motivation is centered on the story aspect of things, and if they begin to delve into the making-films-just-to-win-awards arena then I’ll eat my hat. (snigger)
– Mitch
Of course I was just kidding. As we all know there’s no studio so story driven as Pixar is and will be for the foreseeable future.My insider friend told me just a few minutes ago that this picture is so great that it’s a masterpiece even in its animatics and storyboard/layout montage versions!!!
Maybe Pixar will try to make the people look more realistic so taht the live action sequences dont look so “cheesy”. Rememeber Andrew Stanton said in an interview that he was shooting the movie like if it was in live-action (he said something like, we made the ocean realistic in Finding Nemo, now we’re trying to make the Earth photorealistic as well). He’s trying to make it look like an actually camera filmed the movie.
Ohhhh, I see. Eheh. Yes, sorry about that. I tend to jump to conclusions too fast. Forgive me for my ignorance. (snigger)
– Mitch