Dav Pilkey’s Dog Man is heading to the big screen for his first movie, arriving in early 2025 – and here’s the first trailer.
Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie, written by Nicholas Stoller and directed by David Soren, is one of the funniest, most delightful animated films of recent years. It even boasts a brilliant theme song by Weird Al Yankovic. The brief clad superhero ought to have had many more big screen adventures, but it wasn’t to be, although a short lived television series is still available to watch on Netflix.
Back in 2020, we heard that author Dav Pilkey’s other hit series Dog Man was heading to the big screen courtesy of Dreamworks Animation. The series consists of 12 books, which have sold over 60 million copies.
The synopsis for the film reads as follows:
“Part dog, part man, all hero.” When a faithful police dog and his human police officer owner are injured together on the job, a harebrained but life-saving surgery fuses the two of them together and Dog Man is born. Dog Man is sworn to protect and serve—and fetch, sit and roll over. As Dog Man embraces his new identity and strives to impress his Chief (voiced by Lil Rel Howery), he must stop the pretty evil plots of feline supervillain Petey the Cat (Pete Davidson). Petey’s latest plan is to clone himself, creating the kitten Lil Petey, to double his ability to do crime stuff. Things get complicated, though, when Lil Petey forges an unexpected bond with Dog Man. When Lil Petey falls into the clutches of a common enemy, Dog Man & Petey reluctantly join forces in an action-packed race against time to rescue the young kitten from evil. In the process, they discover the power of family (& kittens!) to bring even the most hostile foes together.
The voice cast also includes Isla Fisher, Poppy Liu, Stephen Root, Billy Boyd and Ricky Gervais.
Peter Hastings directed the film. Intriguingly, the final writing credits have not been confirmed, but it was adapted from the book series by Dav Pilkey.
Dog Man will be released in UK cinemas on 7th February 2025.
Watch the trailer below…
