For someone who has had a perpetual anxiety around dogs, I used to love both Clifford and Marmaduke. Maybe it was because these large dogs actualy were sweet and friendly, in stark contrast to the drooling, foaming, razor eyed mongrels that infested our neighborhood. The Marmaduke comic strip first hit papers in 1954, and now more than 50 years later it's finally getting a shot at the big screen.
THR is reporting that Owen Wilson has signed on to voice the great dane. Judy Greer and William H. Macy are on board as two of his human companions. The voice talents of Christopher Mintz-Plasse(Superbad), Fergie(The White Eyed Pea), Emma Stone(Zombieland) and others will be featured as well. Tom Dey is directing. I'll try not to hold his filmography against him, which includes Shanghai Noon(a decent film), Showtime(a miserable film), and Failure to Launch(an unwatchable film).
The storyline is set to involve a "turf war" between purebreed dogs and the mutts....
Marmaduke is set to be released in June 2010. Kinda quick, ain't it? What's the rush? Surely they want more time to...I dunno...change the plot to something else?
