Well Rounded

Well Rounded is an upcoming CGI-animated sci-fi mecha comedy coming-of-age adventure Netflix original film set to be released in November 2022. It was inspired by the 2001 film Bubble Boy starring Jake Gyllenhaal and giant robot movies and shows.

Plot
Mia Jefferson, a imaginative 9-year old girl is born with a weak immune system and lives with her parents in a sterile plastic bubble in her large bedroom in her fictional suburban home of Shinesdale, California. Mia's day is always the same: Wake up, do her daily yoga and deep-breathing excersizes, get fed, attend online elementary school classes on her tablet, work on her own light-up decorations for her plastic bubble play, eat dinner, go to bed, it's everyday. Inside her bubble she dreams of one day becoming a superhero and saving the day.

On her ninth birthday, she is given a special present: A special plastic bubble (similar to a zorb ball) called the Mikosphere made of an unbreakable, special elastic rubber, that way she can go outside. However, Mia is worried about the bubble's oxygen supply, but Mia's mom states that "This ball is so high-tech, it's forever breath-giving". She goes outside to see her online friends Coco, and Zack and let her inside the school for a visit. The kids bully Mia for being a "bubble girl", which upsets her. Coco and Zack comfort her outside and she invites her friends over to her house to hang out. One night, she gets a video call from her grandfather Miko Jefferson and tells her to come to his laboratory in Anaheim, California. The Jefferson Family inflate Mia's Mikosphere and use a large minivan to fit Mia in the back and drive to Anaheim. There, It's revealed that Mia's UncleMiko has partnered with NeXTron Technologies to build a huge robot suit named MikoX, but they need someone with the right amount of tech skills and finesse. Mia also meets her grandfather Yuri Jefferson, who passed away but has an AI of himself created by copying his memories, and Professor Craig Zeigel, who is Miko's grumpy colleague.

The next day, Mia returns back to school and she's tells Coco and Zack about the secret. As soon as the two tell everyone else in school, an emergency alert is broadcast to the televisions of the school cafeteria warning about recent large meteor impacts. At first, the school panics and Mia goes home, but also feels scared about the meteors. After some small meteor impacts hit some of the homes in Shinesdale, the family escapes and are saved by Miko's futuristic [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VTOL#:~:text=A%20vertical%20take%2Doff%20and,without%20relying%20on%20a%20runway. VTOL] dropship. They go to NeXTron, with their only hope in destroying the meteors is to pilot MikoX. Mia is scared, but is encouraged by her family and friends, and Mia finally agrees. Upon entering the robot, the cockpit was revealed to be built specially for Mia's bubble with a sphere-shaped cockpit, and event added gadgets to her backpack allowing her to interface with the robot. Mia blasts off into space and uses the robot's many weapons to destroy the meteors. She succeeds in saving the Earth but her feat isn't known to the world.

Shortly afterwards, A jealous Prof. Zeigel is shocked at Mia's skills and plans to build a better machine to one-up Miko and ruin Mia's as a hero. The next day, Miko is in the forests of Shinesdale playing with animals until she notices a giant spider-like robot. Mia tells the animals to run away and she retreats back, only for MikoX to come to her rescue. After a short fight, Mia is subdued and Zeigel is revealed to be the evil robot's pilot who then tells her he was the ones who sent the meteors down to Sunnysdale. In Zeigel's backstory, he used to create technology to help people but he believes machines should take over even the smallest aspects of human life and allow neither humans or machines to live in harmony. Mia is shocked and angered. Zeigel says that after working with Miko, he double-crossed her and her whole family and tells Mia that robot was "Just more of his outdated toys". Zeigel tells Mia that Miko is "too soft" on humanity and says he will make the world a better place in his own image by using his robot army to frame Miko and conquer Earth with an army of fake MikoMech robots and his own evil human pilots who use their own mechs.

Mia goes off to call her grandfather on her tablet but he doesn't respond, Luckily, Miko sent a text message telling her they're all right, he and Mia's family were captured by Zeigel, and NeXTron has been taken over and hacked by Zeigel's forces. Mia then engages the enemy forces and defeats them all. However, Zeigel appears in his mech and combines with the meteor-deploying device to terminate Mia. Mia destroy the meteors and destroys the device on the back of Zeigel's mech. Enraged, Zeigel decides to terminate Mia with all his might. Mia tries to struggle back, but the power systems on Mia's robot start failing due to the strength of Zeigel's robot. Miko sets himself free by tricking a sentry drone into unlocking their cell onboard the giant robot. Miko then summons Yuri's AI and sacrifices his own power, imbues MikoX's circuits with his power, and Mia is able to defeat Zeigel and rescue her family. The next day at school, Zeigel is in prison for years according to a TV news report and Mia is hailed as a hero. The movie then ends with Mia saying "Just because I'm a girl forever stuck in a bubble, that doesn't mean my spirit is stuck too. I've always got an entire world to see... and protect!"

Cast:

 * Mia Jefferson(Voiced TBA): The main protagonist of the film. She is a Japanese-American nine-year old geek who lives in a plastic bubble due to her weak immune system. She is also revealed to be good at technology and becomes the pilot of MikoX. She also has a gadget backpack made by her grandfather that brushes her teeth and combs her hair.
 * Suzie Jefferson(Voiced by TBA): Mia's Mother. She is very kind, caring and spends time with Mia, but is very overprotective for Mia's life. She can also be a scatterbrain.
 * Kai Jefferson (Voiced by TBA) Mia's Father.
 * Coco (Voiced by TBA): an 8-year old Hawaiian-American girl Mia's Best Friend.
 * Zack: (Voiced by TBA) A 9-year old Spanish-American boy and friend to Mia.
 * Miko Jefferson: (Voiced by TBA): Mia's Uncle and current chief officer of NeXTron Technologies. He is the lead designer of MikoX.
 * Yuri Jefferson (Voiced by TBA): Mia's Grandfather who passed away due to unknown cause, but has an AI avatar of himself who is fully sentient.
 * Professor Zeigel (Voiced by TBA): The main antagonist of the movie. He is Miko's colleague but secretly wants to prove his technology is superior to his by attempting to take over the world using mindless, souless drones and human thugs.
 * Influence

Well Rounded was inspired by the 2001 Jake Gyllenhall movie Bubble Boy, but it was made to be more "family-friendly and superhero-like", with the main character Mia being in a plastic bubble because the producers found it "cute and empowering". Zeigel and Miko's relationship The art style is also similar to another Netflix original, True and the Rainbow Kingdom in terms of character design, but more detailed in worldbuilding. MikoX's design was said to be inspired by various classic mecha anime such as Mazinger Z and Tetsujin 24/Gigantor, and the giant robot aspect of the movie was describes as being inspired by Big Hero 6, Pacific Rim and the 1979 anime Mobile Suit Gundam "but lighthearted, made-for and relatable to pre-teen kids and all ages".