Channing Tatum has been going through a lot in his personal life. We’re not a gossip site so you can look that shit up yourself. But the impact of it is that we haven’t seen him on the big screen in a major role since Kingsman: the Golden Circle, which feels like a lifetime ago. Tatum’s starting to come back now with multiple projects on the way, and one of those, Dog, is a film that he makes his co-directing debut on.
Dog is co-directed by Tatum and his frequent producing partner Reid Carolin, and finds the actor as an Army Ranger who races alongside his military dog Lulu to make it to the funeral of a fallen comrade. Animal/pet comedy hijinks ensues, and honestly, it looks like a perfect comeback role for Tatum.
The film was co-written by Carolin and Brett Rodriguez, with Yellowstone and The New World actress Q’orianka Kilcher co-starring.
After some delays caused by the pandemic, Dog now opens in theaters on February 18th 2022.
DOG is a buddy comedy that follows the misadventures of two former Army Rangers paired against their will on the road trip of a lifetime. Army Ranger Briggs (Channing Tatum) and Lulu (a Belgian Malinois dog) buckle into a 1984 Ford Bronco and race down the Pacific Coast in hopes of making it to a fellow soldier’s funeral on time. Along the way, they’ll drive each other completely crazy, break a small handful of laws, narrowly evade death, and learn to let down their guards in order to have a fighting chance of finding happiness.
