Ellen DeGeneres as a Dog?
Filed under: Animation, Deals, Warner Brothers, Distribution, Family Films
In the animal kingdom, is it better to be a fish or a dog? Ellen DeGeneres played the irritably memorably cheerful, memory-deficient Dory in Pixar's Finding Nemo -- "When life gets you down do you wanna know what you've gotta do? ... Just keep swimming. Just keep swimming. Just keep swimming, swimming, swimming. What do we do? We swim, swim."
For her first feature film since Nemo, Ellen will be playing a dog (?!). She will take center stage as the lead voice in Dog Show, an animation pitch that has been picked up by Warner Brothers, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Details are scarce. THR says "the story centers on a stray dog and her misfit friends who shake up the famed and pure-bred world of a Westminster-like dog show." Hmm, kinda like an animated version of Christopher Guest's Best in Show, but from the point of view of the dogs?
DeGeneres' talk show is, evidently, still a potent force in the daytime TV arena, and I imagine she could use it to plug Dog Show like there's no tomorrow, though who knows when the movie will eventually come out. First time around, her character in Finding Nemo got on my nerves, but eventually my view of her character was softened to the point where I (almost) found Dory endearing.
Ellen certainly has a distinctive voice, and I could totally see her playing a stray dog who gets into mischief. Would you pay to see her in an animated Dog Show?
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2-26-2009 @ 8:17AM
Maria Stahl said...
Awwww, I loved Dory from the get-go!
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2-26-2009 @ 8:44AM
Batzarro said...
What? She's a Lesbian, therefore she chooses to play a dog and not a bitch. Not that hard to figure out. Well, either that or they don't like the terms bitch and female dog (after all, as a female will be playing a dog, well, it sounds kinda redundant).
"Ellen DeGeneres as a Bitch?"
Not quite the same, eh?
That said: Talking dog movie! (cross sign. Hiss)
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2-26-2009 @ 11:40PM
Maria Loi said...
I love animals and I love Ellen. I will pay to see that movie for sure.
Straights or gay, they don't matter to me, they are all human on this planet earth and we can't be here for long so enjoy each other for time just fly away. It is better for your spirit to be kind to all species on this planet earth for you can't live forever!
Cheers,
Maria Loi
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