Why Didn’t They Use a Real Dog?

Call of the Wild (2020)

The Harrison Ford vehicle ‘Call of the Wild’ is out in cinemas this month. It is based on a novel of the same name which apparently is an American household staple. Being British, I had never heard of the book so have no preconceptions about the movie. What I do know is that it is about a dog. So, one assumes, the filmmakers must have gone to some trouble to find some similar looking dogs and train them so that th- oh, no, they just…

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Leo Cookman

Peripatetic Writer. “Time’s Lie” out now from Zero Books.