Absolutely Anything
As Dennis the Dog
2015 | Comedy, Live-action/CGI | In US theaters May 12, 2017 | Official Site
As Dennis the Dog
Terry Jones
Terry Jones and Gavin Scott
August 14, 2015 (UK) Pushed back from July, 2015 | February 13, 2015
December 7, 2015 (UK - region 2)
June 27, 2017 (US - region 1)
May 12, 2017
Phoenix Pictures
Bill and Ben Productions
Lionsgate Films (UK)
Atlas Distribution
Dennis the Dog (voice)
Alien (voice)
Alien (voice)
Alien (voice)
Alien (voice)
Neil Clarke
The Pythons will be voicing the key roles as a group of aliens who endow an earthling with the power to do "absolutely anything" to see what a mess he'll make of things - which is precisely what happens. There's also a talking dog named Dennis who seems to understand more about the mayhem that ensues than anyone else does.
"Contrary to reports, we are able to confirm that Robin Williams completed his voice recording for the role of Dennis," say Bill Jones and Ben Timlett in a statement. "Everyone on the Absolutely Anything team was distraught to hear the sad news and we send our condolences to Robin's family."
A comedy of intergalactic proportions
Great power. Total irresponsibility.
March 24 2014 - May 12, 2014
UK (Pinewood Studios)
August 12, 2015
August 14, 2015
August 20, 2015
August 21, 2015
August 28, 2015
September 10, 2015
October 22, 2015
May 12, 2017
It took some time for Williams to get to a place where he and the filmmakers were happy with his performance.
"What was interesting was he started off doing it one way — tried it, it didn’t quite work," said Medavoy. "Then, the [filmmakers] came over from London. He tried it again. And then I was driving I think to one of my kids' basketball games and he called and he said, 'I just had an inspiration. I just figured out how to do it.'"
"It was a great idea," noted Medavoy. In order to make sure it made the film, Medavoy said that Williams shouldered the considerable expense to rent out a studio to record his role one final time. "It's in the movie."
