DreamWorks found a major hit with last year’s adaptation ofPeter Brown’s novelThe Wild Robot.

He’d also citeE.T.

Sanders and companydidn’t shy away from the realities of nature.

Roz the robot (Lupita Nyong’o) running through a colorful swarm of butterflies in The Wild Robot

Image via Universal Pictures

It wasn’t something we asked for, they were just testing the waters.

Is it too much to have little kids saying these things?'

Butit actually was the exact right combination of elementsto pull that kind of thing off."

The Wild Robot Movie Poster

Because Roz the robot is on an island where the animals' programming is there for a reason.

And that programming is gonna have to shift.

Andnot unlikeLion King, death is a very important part of it.

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It sets the parameters.

The Wild Robotis now streaming on Peacock.

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