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Trash Planet was the former version of WALL-E before it was halted and drastically overhauled. The film would have originally been directed by Pete Docter and Andrew Stanton with the intent to make the film an science fiction. The plot was more akin to Robinson Crusoe and The Last Man on the Earth. It was originally as second feature film in 1996 and originally titled Trash Planet, instead ninth feature film in 2008 and retitled WALL-E.
Plot[]
The plot was currently unknown at the time.but it is possible that it would have had the same plot as WALL-E.
Production[]
Andrew Stanton conceived WALL-E during a lunch with fellow writers John Lasseter, Pete Docter, and Joe Ranft in 1994. Toy Story was near completion and the writers brainstormed ideas for their next projects—A Bug's Life, Monsters, Inc., and Finding Nemo—at this lunch. Stanton asked, "What if mankind had to leave Earth and somebody forgot to turn off the last robot?" Having struggled for many years with making the characters in Toy Story appealing, Stanton found his simple Robinson Crusoe-esque idea of a lonely robot on a deserted planet strong. Stanton made WALL·E a waste collector as the idea was instantly understandable, and because it was a low-status menial job that made him sympathetic. Stanton also liked the imagery of stacked cubes of garbage. He did not find the idea dark because having a planet covered in garbage was for him a childish imagining of disaster.
Stanton and Docter developed the film under the title of Trash Planet for two months in 1995, but they did not know how to develop the story and Docter chose to direct Monsters, Inc. instead.