'A Dog's Purpose' Trailer: Amblin's Next Movie Is About a Dog's Immort…

When we spoke to Kristie Macosko Krieg, one of the producers at Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Partners, she told us the goal of the reborn company was to make family movies. In her words, “They’re four quadrant with something for everybody, whether it’s Goonies or Gremlinsor American Tail or Back to the Future…every movie we did in the ’80s and ’90s. We are going back to that. We want to tell stories that feel Amblin-like.”

At the time of that conversation, the only movie she mentioned as being on the horizon was called A Dog’s Purpose. (We’ve since learned Peter Jackson is working on a secret Amblin movie.) We didn’t know much about it back then, but the first trailer just hit online (on National Dog Day, of course) and reveals a multi-generational story about a dog (voiced by Josh Gad) who keeps getting reincarnated and thrust into the lives of other people. It’s a bit unexpected, to say the least.

The actual trailer looks way more wholesome than the rather unsettling idea of a dog’s soul jumping from puppy to puppy and owner to owner. It looks chemically sweet, like a movie specifically designed make anyone whose ever loved a dog turn into a puddle of tears by the end of it. 

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A Dog’s Purpose hits theaters on January 27, 2017.

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