Pooch Cafe moves closer to big screen

Alan Gardner Published: October 13, 2011 at 9:05 am EDT 1 minute 6 comments

I reported a couple of years ago that Paul Gilligan’s Pooch Cafe had been optioned for a movie by Sony Pictures. The movie has now taken one step close with the hire of Kelly Asbury to write the adaptation. Kelly was the director and co-writer of Gnomeo and Juliet.

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Dan Bielinski

Who would be a good voice for Poncho?

Oct 13,2011
Ben Carlsen

This is one that I think would look really good as a CG animated film. Mutts, which apparently has also been optioned for a movie, would not, but I think Pooch Cafe could look cool. I’ll see it.

Oct 13,2011
Vince

I couldn’t see (or should I say hear) anyone but the actor playing Poncho on the Ringtails podcasts in the film. He does a great voice that closely matched the one I heard in my head when reading Pooch Cafe.

Oct 14,2011
Alex Hallatt

“Adaptation”?” Oh no…

Paul had to fight to write the screenplay, despite having a screenwriting qualification and having written the comic strip for donkeys years…

I hope they don’t ruin it….

Oct 15,2011
Mike Peterson

Of course they’ll ruin it. They’re Hollywood!

The question is, will Paul keep his head down and not let the depiction in the movie creep into the strip? I’d say “cash the checks, man, but don’t watch the movie even once.”

Oct 17,2011
Nancy Roy

any cartoonist who gets their strips adapted into a movie is lucky indeed; I would imagine there’s no better promotion.

Oct 17,2011

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