Owen Wilson cast to voice Marmaduke

Owen Wilson has been cast to voice Marmaduke in Fox’s CGI/live-action movie adaptation of the comic, according to the Hollywood Reporter. ( The dog doesn’t speak in the comic, but perhaps Wilson became an expert barker after working on Marley & Me and will just bow-wow his way through the film? One can hope.) THR says the film will see Marmaduke “navigate a volatile Mutts vs. Pedigrees turf war, woo the purebred of his dreams and overcome a fall from grace.” The star-studded cast also includes Judy Greer, Lee Pace, and William H. Macy as humans, and Fergie, Emma Stone, George Lopez, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Steve Coogan, Damon Wayans, and Marlon Wayans, who all lend their voices to characters. A family-friendly movie about a dog with a recognizable cast may attract a decent audience to theaters on a three-day weekend how many Beethoven movies did they make? but I wonder just how they’ll do an entire movie based on this 55-year-old single-panel comic.”