How ‘League of Super-Pets’ Expands the DC Universe in a Colorful, Family-Friendly Way

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an animated “Super-Pets” movie. Not only are the heads of the company – co-founder/co-owner/CEO Dwayne Johnson, co-founder/co-owner Dany Garcia and president of production Hiram Garcia – animal lovers, but Garcia in particular is, for lack of a better term, a huge comic book nerd.“I remember our agent had given me a call and he’s like, ‘Hey, there’s this thing percolating,’” Garcia recalled to TheWrap of how Seven Bucks got involved in the Warner Bros.

Pictures release. “And he goes, ‘I don’t know if you know that Superman has a dog,’ and first of all I was, like, offended. I’m talking to him with a giant Superman statue behind me (laughs).

I know all about this world.”The project that would become “DC’s League of Super-Pets” is based on the Legion of Super-Pets, a team of super-powered pets that made their comics debut all the way back in 1962.

And the notion of tackling an animated film about the superpowered pets of characters in the DC Universe was particularly intriguing for Garcia and the Seven Bucks team, especially as they were already deep into making the much darker live-action DC movie “Black Adam” starring Johnson.“[‘Super-Pets’ is] such a fun world,” Garcia said. “We were obviously deep into ‘Black Adam’ and we were telling a story there that was really edgy and dark and catering to a whole side of the DC Universe we love, but here was his opportunity now to tell an entire other kind of story that was family oriented, that was great for kids, that was a four-quadrant deep cut in the comic book world where you’re getting into characters that have been around for a long time, but maybe not as many people know about them.”Garcia says they were also enthused by the “great group of filmmakers” attached to the.