# Tilly Norwood Creator’s New Project? An AI Talking-Dog Movie With the Co-Director of ‘The Lion King’

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/tilly-norwood-creators-new-project-an-ai-talking-dog-movie-with-the-co-director-of-the-lion-king/
- Published: 2026-11-10T15:15:57+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-10T20:53:37+00:00
- Original publisher: The Hollywood Reporter
- Original article: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/tilly-norwood-ai-dog-movie-minkoff-watch-trailer-1236751596/
- Topics: AI, Entertainment, Film, Technology

## Key points

- Rob Minkoff is directing an AI-assisted talking-dog family film.
- AI will create the toddler and dogs; actors will voice the dogs.
- The team aims to complete the film in about a year.

## Summary

Eline van der Velden, creator of AI-generated performer Tilly Norwood, is developing *Storm Dogs*, a hybrid live-action and animated family film, with *The Lion King* co-director Rob Minkoff. The project follows a group of dogs helping a toddler lost in the woods, and its creators say AI could make scenes involving talking dogs and young children more practical to produce.

AI-generated characters will portray the child and dogs, while human actors provide the dogs’ voices and adult performers appear in some live-action scenes. Minkoff says AI could avoid the difficulties of filming with animals and toddlers, though he acknowledges that keeping dogs’ appearance and movement consistent will be challenging. The team plans to show a two-and-a-half-minute proof of concept; Minkoff estimates completing the film’s development and production work could take about a year. It is privately financed and will seek studio distribution later.

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