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Andrew Stanton is directing!
Aw man – ya’ beat me to it! 
Heheh
– that is the cutest little thing. You know what he reminds me of? One of those robots that NASA sent up to Mars
to study the planet. He looks almost identical to one of those machines.
Just adorable. And ha! – this
goes against my theater that WALL-E is about aliens! Turns out that everybody else was right in thinking that it
would be a robot. 
And where did you get that Ratatouille picture, JV?
That’s cute.
Edit: Ahh…nevermind. I found were you got that Remy picture.
I was right again – Remy does make an omellete!
Well then, that settles the “robot or alien?” argument. Haha.
The
resemblance between Wall?E and the toy robot from Toy Story is
uncanny!
[img]http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e134/Tony_Rydingers_Girl/Toy%20Story/toyrobot2.
jpg[/img]
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Great news JV !!!
Of course he is. I never had any doubt about it. He finished
Finding Nemo in 2003, and then began his new project, [i]WALL?
E[/i]
About the picture, I don’t know what to think yet, but I’m sure Pixar will make
another great movie. And Andrew Stanton is my favourite Pixar director, so…
PixarVixen - Perhaps that’s where they got the idea? Kind of a like a NASA
robot/Toy Story robot toy blend. 
Archibald -
Andrew Stanton is also my favorite Pixar director to boot, although…the entire crew at the studio is great.
After Finding Nemo, I have no doubt that this film will be a wonderful one.
Yeah, we finally can safely say that it’s a robot and not an alien, as was rumoured. I had no dought
Wall-E was going to be about a robot, because Lifted is
about an alien.
Wow, good thinken
PixarVixen!
Man I was so sure Wall-e was going to be [i]
Incredibles Two[/i]. It just sounded right that, after showing Mr. Incredible and gang could beat up
anyone on earth, he would have to fight a sinister orginization from space(wall-e).
Also, wasn’t Jim
Reardon directing Wall-E at some point?
Holy CRAP that was fast! I wasn’t expecting to see anything until Rat came
out! Wow!
Anway, this is a very interesting pic…Instead of the bright, colorful, happy image that is
usually released first, this one is rather dark, dank and depressing…I love it! And the design is very
different as well - that sad little face of his just makes me want to scoop him up in my arms and squeeze the
bolts right out of him (even though I can’t find his mouth. Wheeere is it?!?). Nice to see Pixar breaking the
norm.
(BTW, I don’t think it looks like the robot toy from Toy Story.)
Hey Gasduude, your sig has
an error in it - this doesn’t come out until 2008!
Meg - Ha – I love the style, too! Deep, gloomy, mysterious –
it’s awesome. This theme works for me all around…
And, actually, I like him better without a mouth.
Any character without a mouth or who can’t talk I seem to love, for some reason.
WALL-E looks like a cross between a bulldozer and the
robot from the Short Circuit movies… looks cute!
Oh boy! Wall-e was a robot! How incredible. Although, many of us had theories about
it, it was indeed nice to be 100% confirmed. Not to mention that is goint to be their next film after
Ratatouille, we kinda guessed that too.
"Instead
of the bright, colorful, happy image that is usually released first, this one is rather dark, dank and
depressing…I love it! And the design is very different as well"
I agree! Wonder who’s designing
the film? Any word on this?
Looks very interesting. Leave it to Pixar to take an unexpected (in a good
way) turn!
I don’t know
if any of you remember, but a user who goes by the name of petitelapin, who claimed
that he/she got an early look at the WALL? E poster, said pretty much the same thing in one of the earlier
threads (the poster compared the WALL? E character to the robot from Short Circuit,
to be precise). I guess petitelapin was a trustworthy source after all
Meg: Yeah I know. 
It was a typo.
Fixed it.
Anyway, what I see
from this little guy is that he gets left behind for something because he was too small. In the movie he has to
prove his worth to everyone to avoid something terrible happening.
He is [i]so
cute[/i]! It’s fitting that Stanton is directing this film.
Stanton directing = very
yes!
Although Nemo was initially my least favorite Pixar film when I first saw it in theaters, it has grown on
me more and more each time I watch it, and I can’t wait to see what Andrew Stanton will do with a movie that’s
not about fish.
As for that picture itself…ehhhh, we’ll see. To me,
it looks like the movie might still take place in space (he does look sort of like
one of those land rover robots that they put on Mars), so aliens aren’t totally out of the question yet.
I personally think this movie has great potential, but right now I’m only seeing two ways this could go: an
R2D2-style film, or Cars 2: Robotic Cars, the second of which I don’t think will go over very well with the
general audience.
Mitch mentioned something that sounds really cool, if they pulled it off: a character
who can’t talk. I doubt this will happen, but I think it would be really cool if the main character of Wall-E
never talks, and the movie focuses on this mute robot. If he is able to express himself and make you sympathise
with him without words, that would be a really cool starting point. Of course, there would be talking in the
movie by other characters, so it wouldn’t be an hour and a half of silence, but hey, they’ve made some terrific
short films without any dialogue, why not try a little of this in a feature-length movie?
Anyway, I have
no doubts that this will be an excellent film, if for no other reason than Andrew Stanton directing.
Just to let you all know, Jim Hill Media has just posted an image of the Wall-E
logo:
[url=http://jimhillmedia.com/blogs/jim_hill/archive/2007/01/18/want-a-peek-at-the-mouse-house-s-futu
re-then-check-out-the-on-line-version-of-the-walt-disney-company-s-2006-annual-report.aspx]Jim Hill
Media[/url]
hill’s not the first to
have that logo, and his site is one of the least reputable sites about animation on the internet. Poorly
written, badly researched, and scraping the bottom of the barrel for scraps of misinformation to spread as
scandal. No wonder he’s so reviled in the industry!
Here’s the official WALL?E
logo:
[img]http://bp3.blogger.com/_nIqrDPD-Np8/Ra8Lmqy88bI/AAAAAAAAACQ/WEtUFGv9wOA/s320/wallelo
go.jpg[/img]
I think it cool!
aaawww, it looks so sad. I want to hug it!!! ;-;
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and from reading that Jim Hill article (no tomatoes please DX) it looks like it
will be a Intergalactic version of The West Side Story.
HA!!
Shark Bait - Mm-hm. Yes, this is what I’m on
about: Characters who can’t voice their opinions via a speech mechanism/capability seem to appeal to me (and to
other members of an audience) quite a bit, for some reason.
Like you said, take
R2-D2, for example. So much personality in one little robot – you feel that he is a
living, “breathing” character, and even though he only speaks in beeps and whistles, you know what he
is saying. It would be interesting to see Pixar take this same approach with their WALL-E character.
CountSolo - Heeey…that’s pretty cool! I love the logo, too.