DC had better order some milk bones by the truckload for their craft services table because Dwayne Johnson is set to voice Krypto the Superdog in the studio's upcoming animated feature DC League of Super-Pets. Johnson's Seven Bucks production company is producing, with writer-director Jared Stern at the front of the animated superhero adventure. The anticipated film that is bound to be filled with all manner of super-animal antics hits theaters on May 20, 2022. This puts the project on pace to open before Memorial Day weekend next year when Paramount’s Mission: Impossible 7, Lionsgate’s John Wick: Chapter 4, and an untitled Disney live-action title are all scheduled to be unleashed.
The film, which will serve as Krypto's first-ever feature, hails from Warner Bros and Warner Animation Group. Sam Levine is co-directing, with DC planning to pack the cast with other high-profile celebs. Patricia Hicks, Stern, and, under their Seven Bucks Productions banner, Johnson, Dany Garcia, and Hiram Garcia, are producing the film. John Requa, Glenn Ficarra, and Nicholas Stoller are executive producing.
The League of Super-Pets made its debut in 1962, in the pages of Adventure Comics #293. Since that time, characters like Krypto the Superdog, Streaky the Supercat, Beppo the Super Monkey, and Comet the Super Horse have appeared from time to time to lend a helping paw (or hoof) in the ongoing battle against evil. While some of the pets have had their own comic series throughout the years, several have been lost amidst DC's never-ending array of world-changing events, reboots, and edict to establish a more serious multiverse. However, that hasn't stopped the publisher from introducing fans to Damian Wayne's dog Titus, Aquaman's seahorse Storm, Flexi the Plastic Bird, Clay Critter (R.I.P.), and my personal favorite, Bat-Cow.
This is, of course, Johnson's second project set up at WarnerMedia, with the box office behemoth already locked and loaded for the long-gestating live-action superhero feature Black Adam.
Have you ever wondered how Dwayne Johnson manages so many major projects all at once? Do you think he has a cloning machine we don't know about, or is he just super organized? I can't imagine being his manager and having to schedule out his variety of commitments. He's undoubtedly one of the hardest-working stars in the biz, and I can't wait to experience the energy he brings to Superman's very good boy, Krypto.
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