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Get a quick in depth preview of WALL-E, EVE, M-O, AUTO, and the Reject Bots.

Stanton Powers Up WALL•E

Bill Desowitz, of Animation World Magazine, gets an exclusive sneak peek at WALL•E hosted by director Andrew Stanton at Pixar.

"This year we were invited back for an early glimpse of Disney•Pixar’s WALL•E (opening June 27). Only this time, instead of showing a few clips, Andrew Stanton screened the entire first act in the big screening room: 35 glorious minutes of the studio's first foray into animated sci-fi.You've all seen the trailers -- WALL•E is funny, touching and inventive. In other words, pure Pixar -- only more so, as director Stanton emulates the spacey look and feel from classics that boomers grew up with, including 2001: A Space Odyssey, Star Wars and Close Encounters of the Third Kind."

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Short Preview of WALL-E

Quint of aintitcoolnews visited San Fransico and was able to view 35 minutes of the new WALL-E movie. Below is a short preview of what Quint saw while viewing WALL-E.

"The next clip has Wall-E showing EVE around his pad. EVE is a slick new probe robot that Wall-E is head over heels in love with. It’s really cute seeing him go around trying to impress her… She’s a bit jumpy and has a big gun that pops out of her hand when she gets spooked.

The very first thing she looks at is a mounted bass, which starts to sing and move at her and her green eyes go red and she whips up her transformed gun-hand. Wall-E stops her from blowing a hole in his home, but just barely. He shows her a few things, including bubble wrap. She electronic giggles at it and when he goes away she rapid-fire pops all the bubbles, making the plastic fold over her hand, bubble-less and limp.

Wall-E comes back with a lightbulb. He hands it to her and it immediately lights up in her hands. He takes it back quickly, tapping it. This hasn’t happened before… She holds it again and it again it lights up. He gives her a Rubix Cube, all mix-matched and goes to find one of his most prized possessions, a video cassette tape" ...read more of this article

WALL-E in 3-D

WALL-E in 3-D? Well let's ask the director!

Director's Short Preview

Watch a quick clip as Andrew Stanton explains why all but one character in the WALL-E movie actually speaks like a human!

WonderCon: WALL-E - New Footage & Digital Disney 3D Possibilities?

Article posted on Slashfilm by Peter Sciretta

It’s no secret that the film I’m most anticipating in 2008 is Pixar’s WALL-E. I fell in love with the movie when I saw the first teaser trailer and have been closely following the film ever since. Andrew Stanton, the Academy Award winning director of Finding Nemo, came across the bridge to San Francisco to premiere five video clips from WALL-E.

Partly inspired by Luxo Jr, the idea was created machine first, character second. Stanton said the idea was born at an A’s game (the audience booed), Stanton quickly added “rooting for the Red Soxs” (the audience cheered). He spent an entire inning playing with binoculars. Able to get a whole personality just from that simple design. The rest of his look came directly out of the functionality he was supposed to have.

“I wanted to believe that a robot is really there. I wanted to believe he is really a robot and not just a human in a robot shell.”

An audience member asked if Short Circuit partly inspired the design. It seemed like a question Stanton is already tired of hearing. He said that it might be possible that he was subconsciously inspired by Johnny 5 but probably not. The bionoculars served more to inspire WALL-E’s eyes. Stanton also admitted that he had seen Short Circuit only once, long ago.

Stanton talked about his formative years, and growing up in the golden age of sci-fi films. He really missed the feel of that genre of films. He said the biggest improvement to the technology behind this film involved the filming techniques. He wanted to capture the look and feel of the 70mm sci-fi films from his youth, and tech has attempted to emulate things like barrel distortion and lens flares, but not accurately. He says that some of it might not be noticeable to most.

Stanton set up the footage explaining that somewhere in the future, over commercialism has left earth covered in trash. The Human race took off on a space cruise, leaving robots to clean up the mess. All the robots broke, except one, and the humans mysteriously never returned...read more

Interview With WALL-E Director Andrew Stanton

Quint from Ain'tItCoolNews, sits down with Andrew Stanton, creator of WALL-E. Below is a short preview of this interview.

Quint: Watching the trailer, the original teaser… what I loved about it is you don’t really know anything, but what’s great about Pixar is the emotion and the character showed through without us having to know anything about the plot, so it was really fascinating to see this story was so much bigger in scope than I was expecting it to be.

Andrew Stanton: Well, we’re trying to you know, dole it out, the cat’s out of the bag now, but we kept… Initially arguing with marketing, but then they really got behind this idea for what that teaser become, we said “We remember growing up, when all E.T. was three fingers coming around a door and that was it, you had to know more.” We were like “why can’t we go back to that?” So it’s nice to know that it kind of succeeded in that sense.

To read the entire interview, click here!