Rill-E

character from *Inside Out*
by Pete Docter
Ronnie del Carmen

Michael Giacchino (Themes)
Thomas Newman (Themes)

***Rill-E*** (stylized with an interpunct as RILL-E) is an animated science fiction comedy-drama film loosely based on the Andrew Stanton-directed film *Wall-E* (2008) and based on the character from the Pete Docter-directed film *Inside Out* (2015). Following as a spoof/retelling of *Wall-E* from the perspective of the girl from *Inside Out*, the story follows Riley Andersen as a humanoid android girl (Rill-E) that tries to clean up a strange world of trash only to get taken from her workspace to an out of this world adventure with an young Mexican music-loving boy and a ship full of people she never knew they were out there.

Developed by B-Master Animation, in association with KirbyStar Studios, the project is described as a homtage to Pixar Animation Studios unlike *Strange Luck* and that it has been distributed by Walt Disney Pictures and Universal Pictures.

## Premise

Inspired by a Pixar classic, 2,700 years in the future, mankind would leave from our rampant consumerism, corporate greed, and environmental neglect on an Earth-like planet. Leaving the clean up in the hands of a young 12-year-old human girl who's a trash compacting android named Rill-E (Robotic Intelligence Lifeform Loader - Earth Class), or as she likes to call herself closely as “Riley”. Being the only girl around, she one day met a strange boy named Miguel Rivera and as a result of her clumsiness, she's been taken from her world into the furthest reaches of space to the massive spaceship: the Axiom. To get home, she’ll have to fix a problem left behind by her human kind nearly 700 years from now, over an operation forgotten by it’s makers.

## Cast

* Kaitlyn Dias as Riley "Rill-E" Anderson
* Anthony Gonzalez as Miguel Rivera
* Jack Bright (archive recordings) as Spot
* Celeste Notley-Smith as Tari
* Billy Crystal as Mike
* John Goodman as Sulley
* Chris Pratt as Mario
* Charlie Day as Luigi
* James Bailey as SMG3
* Anna Taylor-Joy as Axiom Computer
* Charlies Martinet as Billboard Announcer

## Production

After *Inside Out* was released, there was a lot of ideas to focus around Riley Andersen since the film didn't had much screen time with her due to the focus on the emotions in her head. After a few *Red N' Hiro* projects were done, B-Master and KirbyStar discussed about a *Wall-E* spoof around Riley Andersen being a young robotic trash girl in a planet full of faith. One original idea had to focus on an emotion on Disgust, but scrapped later on to have more focus on Riley than her emotions. The idea was also inspired from a thought from Bing Bong's last words saying "Take Riley to the Moon for me." which makes the project more senseable to focus her going into space and discover who she is. When the original story is finished, the remake was set to expand more with unused ideas from the story trust and some Wall-E media like *Burn-E* and the *Wall-E* games that shows more detail on the world and it's story. The Remake was planned after hearing about *Inside Out* getting a sequel.

To understand the concept, B-Master had an artist to describe what would Riley looks like as a humanoid trash robot, making her human-like but with features around her torso inspired by *Ghost in the Shell*, *Alita: Battle Angel*, and *Astro Boy*, to make her appearance feel like something Pixar has crafted. One of the other ideas to explore is the human anatomy of how Riley makes the trash cubes. This idea was used to help describe how a human robot becomes a trash compacter with the trash going into her stomach and the trash cubes coming out of her butt. While it may be disturbing for viewers, it makes sense for the team to keep it as a way to show how Riley doesn't like her trash clean-up job. One of the changes that will have in the remake would have Miguel staying human but toning down the relationship to make them from enemies to friends closely inspired from *Monsters University* and *Elemental*.

## Trivia

* Originally released in 2017, the project here serves as a remake inspired by the original take of it with the same story structure explored from their current projects like *Lucky Spirit*.

## Gallery

**Riley Andersen****Spot****Miguel Rivera****Tari****Mike****Sulley****Mario****Luigi****SMG3**