Luc Besson’s DogMan has set a United States release date.
Per The Hollywood Reporter, Luc Besson’s new film DogMan, which stars Caleb Landry Jones, will be released in select United States theaters on March 15, 2024, before it then expands wider on March 22, 2024.
What is Luc Besson’s DogMan about?
“In DogMan, having just been arrested, Douglas opens his heart to tell the moving story of his life. As a survivor of childhood trauma, with a violent father who forces him to live in the family kennel, he develops a bond with dogs that defies understanding. Out of this hell, he grows to discover love, theatre, and cabaret, but also the injustice and disillusionment of the human world. In a life that’s been broken a thousand times, only the love of his dogs can bring salvation.”
Along with Jones (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri, X-Men: First Class), the movie stars Jojo T. Gibbs (Past Lives, Fresh), Christopher Denham (The Gilded Age, Oppenheimer), Clemens Schick, Grace Palma, Marisa Berenson, John Charles Aguilar, Alexander Settineri, and Michael Garza.
Written and directed by Besson, DogMan premiered at the Venice Film Festival in August 2023, where it was selected to compete for the Golden Lion award. The movie was released in France this past September.
Briarcliff Entertainment acquired the United States distribution rights for DogMan in October 2023. Virginie Besson-Silla and Steve Rabineau serve as producers on the movie.
Besson is perhaps best known for directing 1997’s The Fifth Element. He’s also made 1990’s La Femme Nikita, 1994’s Léon: The Professional, 2013’s The Family, 2014’s Lucy, and 2017’s Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, among other titles. His most recent film prior to DogMan was 2019’s Anna.
DogMan releases in select United States theaters on March 15 before expanding on March 22, 2024.
