He's definitely not a dog, but he is certainly a man.

And yes, indeed, he could communicate with dogs, and that is why he is known as Dogman.

Howdy?

I'm Jeff Goldsmith, and this is the Q&A.

My agenda is simple.

Each week, I plan to bring you in-depth insight into the creative process of storytelling.

And folks, Dogman basically is a superhero in my opinion and we have a super writer director

Luke Bisson with us today as our guest to talk about his latest film Dog Man.

This is a very unique film. It's got a strange story and I particularly

absolutely love dogs and seeing this anti-hero who could communicate with dogs and

even fight crime with them,

I gotta say it was kind of awesome in my book. We of course talked about Luke Besson's other

films and he was very forthcoming about his creative process so I know you'll dig this episode.

And speaking of things to dig, folks, I hope you check out Backstory magazine over at Backstory.net.

You could find us on a desktop or laptop or via our iPad app, Backstory. And we recently published our Oscars issue, but we keep adding new stuff to it even after we published, which is why there's a Dune Part 2 excerpt that's up live now as well. You could read that excerpt for free on our website. Of course, the entire article is in the

magazine for readers and subscribers, so if you're not already a subscriber, I hope you consider

becoming one over at backstory.net. But now, without any further ado, let's jump right into

our interview with writer-director Luke Bassan about his latest film Dogman, which is in theaters

now exclusively.

So if you want to support independent filmmaking, go see Dogman in theaters, or if it's not

playing in your city, catch it on VOD sometime soon.

Well, so, Luke, it's good to see you.

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