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Talking Dog YouTube Video Tapped For Talking Dog Feature Film

by Max Eddy | 3:27 pm, February 14th, 2012

Remember this guy? The disappointed, talking dog whose Ultimate Dog Tease video stole the Internet’s heart and netted 94 million views in the process? Well, the video’s creator Andrew Grantham is now reportedly in talks with Paramount Pictures to produce a feature-length film based off the one minute 21-second YouTube video. There’s no word as to why the studio is interested, but it might have something to do with it being the second most watched YouTube video fo 2011, coming in after Rebecca Black’s “Friday.” Let’s hope Hollywood doesn’t go after her next.

According to Variety, the movie would be headed by writers Alec Berg and David Mandel who have a surprising comedy writing pedigree.

“Dog Tease” is being developed through Par’s Insurge label, which produced the low-budget hit “The Devil Inside.” Berg and Mandel have worked on multiple segments of “Seinfeld” and “Curb Your Enthusiasm” along with “Eurotrip.”

Well, that’s two points for and one against. Not bad, really.

While it’s nice to think that we’d get another Babe or Homeward Bound out of this project, I can’t help but imagine the final product as a low-budget cash-in. More like Pig in the City or Lost in San Francisco. Though there’s always a chance it could be a surprise, I’m just going to cling to my cynicism and stick with the original.

(Variety via BuzzFeed)

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  • Dr Coene

    Max Eddy, you horrible philistine, you go out and stream Babe 2: Pig in the City off Netflix right effing now, and you come back here and try telling me that film is nothing but a cheap cash in off the original Babe.

    How is it that that out of all the supposedly cultured, esoteric-loving “geeks” at Geekosystem, none of you have the taste or sense or worldliness to know that Babe 2: Pig in the City was an anomalous jade diamond of cinematic sublimity?

    Pearls. Before. Swine.

  • http://profiles.google.com/joint.striker joint striker

    I don’t agree or disagree but I think you made your point the first time.

  • Dr Coene

    My comment with the video link didn’t post at first, so I posted another without the video link so that it wouldn’t get stuck in “must be verified” status.


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