Dreamworks Animation has released the first trailer for Dog Man, based on Dav Pilkey’s series of children’s books. The books are a spinoff of Pilkey’s Captain Underpants book series, which inspired the earlier Dreamworks film Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie in 2017.
The new Dog Man feature is set to release via Universal Pictures on January 31, 2025.
Dog Man is directed by Emmy-winning tv veteran Peter Hastings, whose credits include Animaniacs, Pinky and the Brain, Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness, Lilo & Stitch: The Series, and Catscratch. Hastings has also been involved with various series iterations of Pilkey’s work including The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants. Karen Foster (Spirit Untamed) is producing.
The film’s highly stylized cg design and animation, which keeps in the spirit of the earlier Captain Underpants film, was produced by U.K.-headquartered Jellyfish Pictures, which previously handled production duties on the Dreamworks feature Spirit Untamed.The studio is also handling animation duties on Netflix’s …