No tissues needed! Channing Tatum offered reassurance that his new film will not follow in Marley and Me’s tragic footsteps.
“I think Marley and Me scared everyone,” the Magic Mike actor, 41, revealed during a Tuesday, February 8, look on Jimmy Kimmel Live! to advertise Dog. “Every unmarried particular person that I’ve told that I made a dog movie, they’re like, ‘I’m not going to see it except you inform me if the dog lives.’”
When Tatum requested his loved ones why they would want a new film’s finishing spoiled, he was fast to learn they were less involved in major finds if it meant the precious dog character had a happily ever after.
“It’s a just right ending, in order that everyone knows,” the Alabama native teased to Jimmy Kimmel. “Yeah, yeah, don’t now not see the film simply because you’re petrified of the dog [death].”
Tatum stars as Army Ranger Briggs in Dog, which is ready for unlock later this month. In the film, Briggs takes a cross-country highway go back and forth with the canine companion to wait his past due pal’s navy funeral provider.
While the Jupiter Ascending actor’s character isn’t the largest fan of the military-trained puppy in the trailer, Tatum is a bigger dog lover in real life. In truth, his Pitbull-Catahoula mix Lulu — who died in 2018 — impressed his fellow actor in Dog.
“[My aunt and uncle] simply had a litter of those two mythical canines referred to as Dip and Daisy,” the actor explained right through a Variety interview earlier this month. “Dip used to be this wide-eyed coyote-looking factor that impregnated every dog for, like, one hundred miles. And he’d win any canine combat. And Daisy used to be this gorgeous American pit bull combine. I took the runt, and that used to be Lulu.”
While the Step Up superstar’s upcoming movie — which he codirected — promised a just right ending for the Belgian Malinois navy pooch, 2008’s Marley and Me didn’t fare as well. Based on a memoir of the similar name, Owen Wilson and Jennifer Aniston performed a married couple who adopted the cute but destructive yellow lab pet named Marley. The onscreen dog was eventually euthanized in his outdated age. After the emotional ultimate scene, fans were left reeling over the devoted pup’s dying.
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“A yr after my dog died, I was on a aircraft and Marley & Me used to be an in-flight film,” The O.C.’s Ben McKenzie admitted to Entertainment Weekly in September 2014. “I cried so ceaselessly that the gentleman to my right requested if I was OK. ‘No sir, I am not OK. My canine is lifeless.’”
Dog premieres in theaters on Friday, February 18.
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