Clifford the Big Red Dog

[terry78]

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=90007

I confess I always wanted a movie of this since I was little.

 

[The Guard]

He'd better look like a real dog, and not a giant cartoon dog.

 

[corby]

My biggest question as a kid was "How did they deal with all the giant dog poop?"

 

[Logan0327]

‘Clifford The Big Red Dog’ Movie Unleashed At Paramount

EXCLUSIVE: Paramount Pictures has adopted Clifford The Big Red Dog, after Universal Pictures put the pooch to the curb. Paramount sparked to a pitch by Justin Malen, who’ll write the script for a film that will be a live-action/CG hybrid.

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Universal had developed it for years, and even once dated the picture for release in early 2016. When Silvertongue Films’ Deb Forte decided to take the material in a new direction, Universal let the option lapse. Clifford was launched in 1963 as a book series that follows the adventures of Emily Elizabeth, a young denizen of a rural island community who gets a red puppy for her birthday that grows to the rather unusual size of 25 feet tall. It spawned an animated PBS series.

Malen’s scripting credits include a trio of films that are in postproduction: the Larry Sher-directed Bastards, which stars Owen Wilson and Ed Helms for Montecito and Warner Bros, a script Malen sold as a spec; he also did rewrite work on Paramount’s Baywatch and the DreamWorks pic Office Christmas Party.

Malen is repped by Verve, DMG Entertainment and McKuin, Frankel & Whitehead.

http://deadline.com/2016/06/clifford-the-big-red-dog-movie-paramount-justin-malen-1201781593/

 

[Silvermoth]

They should turn this into a Cold War spy drama where Clifford is a metaphor for the creeping sense of communist influence

 

[Lencho01]

This is cool...

 

[terry78]

What are the odds the villain will be some scientist trying to dissect him or something?

 

[2kt09]

You'd have a more likely chance of making a school dramedy that happened to involve Clifford the Big Red Dog.

 

[Silvermoth]

What are the odds the villain will be some scientist trying to dissect him or something?

Or maybe a big red cat?

 

[Alien Anal]

I imagine Bryan Cranston as the dad in this for some reason. Assuming there is a dad. Not a suggestion, just a thought

 

[Octoberist]

I just hope that Clifford doesn't show his Big Red Wee-Wee. Kids love him, and I just don't him to be a perv just because he's 'compulsive!'

 

[killface]

Am I the only one who wants to see a franchise crossover between Clifford and Godzilla? Throw in King Kong into the mix as well.

 

[DaddlerTheDalek]

This is cool...

I like that pic.

 

[Lencho01]

Paramount’s Hybrid ‘Clifford the Big Red Dog’ Movie Gets 2020 Release Date

 

[Silvermoth]

Ha, cute idea. I’ll give it a go

 

[ThePowerCosmic]

Am I the only one who wants to see a franchise crossover between Clifford and Godzilla? Throw in King Kong into the mix as well.

Well, at least you got the crossover between Godzilla and Kong...

 

[DarkKnight88]

We got Godzilla and Bambi.

 

[ThePowerCosmic]

PBS Studios. Next up is the live-action Arthur, Zoboomafoo, Sagwa and Dragon Tales. Full steam ahead.

 

[terry78]

The last two could probably be made. Arthur as a CG movie has been done via DVD I think.

 

[Silvermoth]

Arthur, as in the aardvark? That would be cute. I wonder if they would use the voice actors or get celebs?

 

[Silvermoth]

EXCLUSIVE: Paramount Pictures’ Live-Action/CGI Adaptation Of Clifford The Big Red Dog To Film This Summer, New Story Details

We were also able to get our hands on the character breakdown for Emily. Take a look below.

EMILY: Female, age 10–13 to play 11-year-old 6th grader, Emily is a precocious, wise and kind girl with a hole in her heart. Emily is an independent young lady. She lives in Harlem, on a charming block in NYC. She shares an apartment with her mother in a classic walk-up building. For a week, Emily is left in the care of her “not so put together” aunt, ABBY. The studio is interested in actors of all ethnicities for the role.

 

[terry78]

Hmmm.

 

[Melpardus]

EXCLUSIVE: Paramount Pictures’ Live-Action/CGI Adaptation Of Clifford The Big Red Dog To Film This Summer, New Story Details

Okay, so I thought Dora was enough to take away all my bewilderment, but now I'm just very confused...

Never mind that this movie is getting made in the first place. Emily Elizabeth living in Harlem? Are we talking gentrified Harlem, or the part of Harlem that's still primarily black? If it's the former, it'll probably the the literal biggest example of the common (black) Harlemite refrain, "White people are running around here with their dogs..." If it's the latter, I'm just very curious how the parental figures would take this, because there is no way in heck that a black family living in NYC is going to be taking on a dog of that size.

 

[terry78]

He doesn't start big, he just over time becomes a giant.

 

[Melpardus]

True (I did watch Clifford's Puppy Days), but still there's definitely a point at which someone has to state the obvious "This dog is getting too dang big" and knowing Harlemites, it doesn't seem like the thing to do to say "We're uprooting our entire life because the dog is too big" but instead just sell the dog. (For all the episodes of both Clifford shows I watched, I don't remember any of them actually covering that point in time.)