DreamWorks Animation's 9th film to be based off a children's book, after Shrek (2001), How to Train Your Dragon (2010), Rise of the Guardians (2012), Home (2015), The Boss Baby (2017), Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie (2017), The Bad Guys (2022) and The Wild Robot (2024).
Based on the Dog Man book series written by Dav Pilkey.