By Universal Pictures and DreamWorks Animation has released the teaser trailer for “Dog Man,” the upcoming animated feature film adaptation of Dav Pilkey’s best-selling kids book series.
Numbering a dozen books, the series has more than 60 million copies in print with another coming this December.
In the film, 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 (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 and Petey reluctantly join forces in an action-packed race against time to rescue the young kitten.
In the process, they discover the power of family (and kittens!) to bring even the most hostile foes together. Also starring are Isla Fisher as TV reporter Sarah Hatoff, Poppy Liu as Petey’s assistant Butler, Stephen Root as Grampa, Billy Boyd as Sarah’s cameraman Seamus, and Ricky Gervais as Flippy the fish.
Emmy winner Peter Hastings (“Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness”) directs the film which Karen Foster will produce.
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