In this wild and outrageous computer-animated comedy-adventure, an odd assortment of animals from the New York Zoo, including a lion, a giraffe, an anaconda, a koala, and a squirrel, discover what a jungle the city can be when one of their own is mistakenly shipped to the wild and they embark on a dangerous mission to rescue him. 

The Wild boasts an impressive vocal ensemble, Kiefer Sutherland (as the respected lion leader, Samson), Greg Cipes (as Samson's son, Ryan), Jim Belushi (as Benny, the street savvy squirrel and Samson's best friend), Janeane Garofalo (as a quick-witted giraffe), Richard Kind (as a dim-witted anaconda), William Shatner (as a wicked wildebeest), and Eddie Izzard (as Nigel, an acerbic koala), along with cutting edge animation, and a story filled with hilarious situations. 

The Wild is directed by Steve "Spaz" Williams, an Oscar-nominated visual-effects veteran (The Mask), who helped to pioneer CG character animation through his work at Industrial Light & Magic on such films as The Abyss, Jurassic Park, and Terminator 2: Judgment Day. He also directed the popular series of Blockbuster commercials featuring the computer-animated characters Carl the rabbit and Ray the guinea pig.

Serving as the film's producer was Clint Goldman, a seven-year ILM veteran and Williams' executive-producer partner in the duo's San Francisco-based production company, Hoytyboy Pictures. Goldman was the animation and visual-effects producer on The Mask, and his credits also include a producing role on the 1997 feature Spawn as well as on the Blockbuster commercials. Beau Flynn, a principal partner in the New Line Cinema-based production company Contrafilm, also served as producer. Flynn was responsible for bringing The Wild to Disney as a pitch over nine years ago with writers Mark Gibson and Philip Halprin. To complete the creative team, he brought both Goldman and Williams on to collaborate as he had been impressed with their sense of humor and visual style on the Blockbuster commercials.
 
Adding to the film's fun and entertainment are a spectacular score by multi-Oscar-nominated composer Alan Silvestri (Back to the Future, Polar Express) and a soundtrack filled with new and familiar tunes by such popular recording artists as Coldplay, Everlife, Lifehouse, and Big Bad Voodoo Daddy. Former Monty Python member Eric Idle and fellow songwriter John Du Prez, the team responsible for the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical Monty Python's Spamalot, wrote and performed the song "Really Nice Day" for the film.
The Wild was animated in Canada at Toronto-based C.O.R.E. Feature Animation, a new studio facility created under the guidance of C.O.R.E. Digital Pictures to make the film. An international team of 350 artists and technicians, including more than 50 animators, gathered from Canada and countries all over the world to lend their talents to this project. The film's opening sequence, featuring 3-D computer-animated characters combined with planes of 2-D-stylized environments, was produced in Dallas, Texas, by Reel FX Creative Studios.
 
According to Goldman, "We wanted our film to have a different look from the other CG films that are out there. We wanted it to have a pseudo-realistic quality, but still be able to have the poetic license to break the boundaries and add lots of fantasy. In our film, characters' eyes bug out and there's a lot of squash and stretch. They get compressed and they can expand. Our animals can drive boats and do other things that animals wouldn't normally be able to do. And we do all this in a world that seems real. It allows us, as filmmakers, to come up with funny situations to immerse our characters in and to make a film that's fun to watch."

Bonus Features

- Eddie Izzard Unleashed: The comedian's bloopers and blunders reel
- Deleted scenes by the film's creators
- "Real Wild Child" music video performed by Everlife