With Lionsgate's recent announcement that it's making a movie based on Thomas Kinkade's feel-good painting "The Christmas Cottage," it seems a befitting time to conjure up a mall art-inspired caper.
Dogs Playing Poker
THE PITCH
Snow Dogs meets
Ocean's Eleven meets
Rounders
THE CAST Diefenbaker the Siberian Husky from Canadian TV's "Due South," Poochie from "The Simpsons," Hooch of
Turner & Hooch, Lady and the Tramp's Lady, Snoop Dogg and Cuba Gooding, Jr.
THE PLOT Alaskan Iditarod dogsled champ Lucky (Diefenbaker) has led his team to world victory for a decade. But he's harboring a dark secret: At night, he haunts an underground poker ring.
(cameos by Spuds MacKenzie, Goofy, Pluto, Spike and Benji as denizens)
His exploits soon cost him his friends in the Husky pack and have him in the hot water of a tick-bath.
Drowning in gambling debt, Lucky the Husky skips town to elude a kingpin's (Snoop's) thugs (Gooding, Hooch). Desperate, Lucky high-tails it to Las Vegas with an old buddy previously presumed to be dead from a botched return to his home planet (Poochie playing himself). After hitting Vegas, Lucky also reconnects with an old canine flame, the fetching showgirl-turned-cocktail-waitress-turned-croupier, Lola (Lady).
(soundtrack featuring Snoop Dogg, The Kinks, Barry Manilow, Pink Floyd, Joss Stone, and Daughtry)
Lucky charmingly recruits his ex-love as an integral part of he and Poochie's scheme to fix the World Series of Poker.
(cameos by Snoopy, Lassie, Rin Tin Tin and Freeway from TV's "Hart to Hart" as tourney heavies)
THE RELEASE Summer 2007
THE TAGLINE "The dog days of summer just got even hotter!"