2. A Human From WALL-E
The robot adventure and love story from WALL-E was adorable, but that was true mostly because the robots were given human emotions and characteristics. (Of course this is always the case with films not featuring peopleyou have to anthropomorphize the creatures in The Lion King or else handing them a Shakespearean script is pointless.) So why not let us take a deeper look at the bulbous and seemingly helpless humans on the Axiom ship. A film with this focus could go in many different directions. It could be a prequel of sorts showing some of the earlier generations of human travels on the Axiom. It could be a sequel of sorts and flesh out what we see over the credits as the humans reclaim Earth. But I think the most interesting angle would be to have a film running more or less parallel to the events in WALL-E and giving us a more sympathetic view of these space-dwellers. I know that by the climax of WALL-E, we see a spark of humanity return to the Homo sapiens, but were all the thousands of people on that ship really content to be vegetables before WALL-E and EVE came along? I dont believe it. Lets have a movie that features a mildly more spry teenager who is tired of living like he has to on the Axiom. He recruits a small gang that make some of the same discoveries the captain ultimately makes and are trying to figure out a way home outside of the events weve seen in the existing film. All their attempts may have been thwarted and theyre about to give up hope when WALL-E shows up (a deus ex machina). They could actually be shown helping out in previously unnoticed ways in some of the existing WALL-E scenes. I realize this sounds rather like The Lion King 1 ½, and Im OK with that, especially if Disney can get Lebo M to compose some music for it (or maybe not).