Universal and DreamWorks Animation are adapting Dav Pilkey’s bestselling children’s graphic novel series “Dog Man.”
The family film, due January 2025, follows a human-dog hybrid police officer sworn to protect and serve — when he isn’t distracted by squirrels. Dog Man goes on a quest to arrest his feline archenemy Petey the Cat, but their feud is forever changed with the arrival of a kitten clone of the supervillain named Lil Petey.
DreamWorks Animation previously adapted Pilkey’s “Captain Underpants” series into a feature film in 2017, as well as an animated series that ran on Netflix from 2018 to 2020.