"Wall-E" gets a plot!

By: Karl Schneider
Date: Wednesday, February 28, 2007
Source: Jim Hill

According to Jim Hill, the upcoming Pixar film, Wall-E, finds Earth as a floating trash heap in space.

Jim Hill writes:

Earth in fact has become so toxic that -- centuries before our story actually gets underway -- mankind has abandoned the planet. We're now all living aboard the Axiom, this massive spaceship that circles high overhead. Waiting for the day that the planet once again becomes inhabitable.

But the only problem is that mankind hired this enormous, inept corporation -- Buynlarge -- to supervise the clean-up effort. And that company -- in turn -- sent hundreds of thousands of robots down to the planet's surface to pick up all of the trash.

But Buynlarge's Waste Allocation Load Lifters -- Earth Class units really weren't up to the task. And so -- over the centuries -- these robots slowly began breaking down. Until now (as the film's story finally, officially gets underway) there's only one WALL E left running on the entire planet.

And so every morning, this WALL E powers up and then tries to accomplish the task that he's been programmed to do. Which is pick up all of the trash that's been scattered around the Earth. It's obviously an impossible job. But still this robot (with the help of his pet cockroach, Spot) does what he can every day.

But here's the thing, folks ... 

Read the rest of the plot synopsis over here ... there's a lot more.


KJ's Take:  Pixar, I love you.  Seriously, you are god's gift to animated stories.  The fact that the first third of this film is practically a silent movie is just flat out daring, and who better to pull it off than Pixar.   Great news, great story, I can't friggin wait.