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The story of WALL-E is simple…a guy and a girl from two separate walks of life meet and fall in love. What isn’t so simple is the backdrop to their love story. WALL-E (which stands for Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-Class) roams the earth completely alone (aside from his pet cockroach). Humans have abandoned the planet and the abundance of garbage they’ve created to live in space. WALL-E, the last operating robot, continues working over hundreds of years. Then one day his life is turned upside down when a probe drops off a space age bot named EVE sent by humans to seek out life on earth. We caught up with writer/director Andrew Stanton, sound designer Ben Burtt and actors Jeff Garlin, Fred Willard and John Katzenberg to find out more.
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More than a decade later the writer and director finally gets to tell the story of Wall-E, a robot with the ability to save mankind. In Stanton’s futuristic world, the earth is overflowing with garbage and humans take off into space temporarily while robots clean up the mess. When the humans fail to return, the robots continue working for hundreds of years. As evolution takes its course one robot named Wall-E starts to develop a personality, feelings and a curiosity about the history of human kind and eventually leaves earth to seek out its former inhabitants. Hollywood.com caught up with the Oscar winner to find out more about Wall-E.