Netflix has locked in the principal cast for A Dog’s Perfect Christmas, a new family holiday film based on the novel of the same name by Bruce Cameron, the New York Times bestselling author of the A Dog’s Purpose franchise.
The call sheet includes Dennis Quaid (The Substance), Milo Ventimiglia (This Is Us), Brooke Lena Johnson (Cruel Intentions), Jennifer Tilly (Chucky), Ethan Loomis, Kathleen Rose Perkins (Doogie Kamealoha, M.D.) and Mary Steenburgen (Easy’s Waltz).
Published in 2020, A Dog’s Perfect Christmas follows a family in crisis where a teenager, her grandfather, and his trusty basset hound struggle to keep the household together at Christmas. Character details for the cast have not yet been disclosed.
Following her work as co-writer on A Dog’s Purpose (2017) and A Dog’s Journey (2019), both released by Universal Pictures, Cathryn Michon has been set to direct from a script written with author Cameron. Dan Angel (Out of My Mind, Ransom Canyon), Michael G. Nathanson, and Jane Charles are producing, with Cameron, Michon, Stephanie Sperber, and David Steward II serving as executive producers.
Quaid is repped by UTA and Hansen, Jacobson, Teller. Ventimiglia is repped by WME, Entertainment 360, and McKuin Frankel Whitehead. Johnson is repped by Metropolitan Talent Agency, Independent Talent Group, Untitled Entertainment, and Bloch Law. Tilly is repped by Vault Entertainment. Loomis is repped by AEFH and Major Talent Group. Perkins is repped by Trademark Talent. Steenburgen is repped by UTA, Entertainment 360, and Gang, Tyre, Ramer. Cameron is repped by manager Sheri Kelton and Myman Greenspan Fox. Michon is also repped by Kelton.
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