Universal, DreamWorks to Adapt Dav Pilkey’s ‘Dog Man’

Universal and DreamWorks Computer animation are adjusting Dav Pilkey’s successful kids’s visuals unique collection “Dog Man.”

The family members movie, due January 2025, complies with a human-dog crossbreed law enforcement agent vouched to safeguard and offer– when he isn’t sidetracked by squirrels. Canine Guy takes place a mission to apprehension his feline adversary Petey the Pet cat, yet their fight is for life transformed with the arrival of a kitty duplicate of the supervillain called Lil Petey.

DreamWorks Computer animation formerly adjusted Pilkey’s “Captain Underpants” collection right into an attribute movie in 2017, along with a computer animated collection that worked on Netflix from 2018 to 2020. The showrunner of that collection, Peter Hastings, will certainly route “Dog Man” with Karen Foster generating.

“Dog Man” will certainly be included to a DreamWorks slate that consists of “Kung Fu Panda 4” in March and an adjustment of Peter Brown’s “The Wild Robot” in September. The movie presently encounters nothing else instant competitors on the January launch slate, and will certainly work as the initial family members offering to struck cinemas after the 2024 holiday, where Paramount’s “Sonic the Hedgehog 3” will certainly be the leading title for that group.

Hastings is repped by Gotham Team.