Silence of the Lambs meets Lady and the Tramp in animated film Stray Dogs

Genre regular Gary Dauberman, whose credits include working on the screenplays for the recent IT films and multiple entries in the Conjuring Universe (he even wrote and directed ANNABELLE COMES HOME, which you can watch HERE), has signed on to produce an animated adaptation of the upcoming Image Comics book STRAY DOGS for Paramount Animation. Dauberman will be producing the film through his company Coin Operated – and despite the fact that it's going to be animated, he promises that it's also going to be terrifying.

GAME NIGHT's Mark Perez is writing the screenplay. All that is known about the comic book source material is that it's described as "SILENCE OF THE LAMBS meets LADY AND THE TRAMP". So wrap your mind around that. The STRAY DOGS comic was created by Tony Fleecs and Trish Forstner.

Dauberman released the following statement about the adaptation: 

So much of what makes horror work is taking something innocent and twisting it into something scary. Like a doll in ANNABELLE. Or a clown in IT. And that's what we want to do in STRAY DOGS: take animation and twist it into something terrifying by using it to explore a really dark story. For me, the project combines a lot of my passions: animation, horror and, well, dogs."

Issues of STRAY DOGS will begin reaching store shelves in 2021.

I really don't have any idea what to expect from this project, but for the moment Dauberman's statement has made it sound promising.