'Alpha' Trailer Is a Dog Lover's Dream 20,000 Years in the Making

Hollywood Reporter ^ | July 18, 2017 | Aaron Couch

[C19fan]

The film stars Kodi Smit-McPhee as a prehistoric young man who must befriend a wolf to survive. Alpha takes "man's best friend" to the next level.

The film takes place 20,000 years ago in Europe, during the last ice age, and centers on a young man who is injured and left for dead by his tribe while on a hunt. He finds and befriends a wolf, who has been abandoned by his pack, and the two team up to fight for survival.

[C19fan]

Rather dramatic and according to the two competing theories of how wolves and humans first hooked up probably not true.

[rktman]

🐕. Just go to the shelter.

[rktman]

After watching the trailer, just wondering if the parkas were peta approved. Patagonia, REI, Columbia.

[Spirochete]

Get ready for the SJWs. "Cast is too white, whitewashing paleolithic brown peoples, blahblahblah."

"Dunkirk Alpha: more proof Hollywood will never run out of movies about white guys doing stuff in WWII the Ice Age."

[Kriggerel]

One of the comments on YouTube made me laugh.

“A movie about how hooman become BFF with Moon-Moon!”

[colorado tanker]

Rent this instead:

[SargeK]

Starring a very young Don Johnson.
Both in the story and in the cast the dog was by far the smarter character.

[colorado tanker]

Yep!

[blueunicorn6]

A heartwarming tale of a young man and his telepathic dog on the search for a girl who liked to cook.

[Hot Tabasco]

Never heard of it but looking forward to it coming out on DVD..........thanks

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Yeah. But the Muslims will hate it. So...s’all good.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

A heartwarming tale of a young man and his telepathic dog on the search for a girl who liked to cook.

Blood: "Well I'd say she certainly had marvelous judgement, Albert, if not particularly good taste."

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

I rather liked “Quest for Fire” but that was set 80,000 years ago. This one looks quite good. Entertaining at the least.

[JohnnyP]

Too much fakey CGI.

[2001convSVT]

I would like to see the sequel, set about 18 years after his 50+ offspring are grown.

[Joe 6-pack]

WOOOF!

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[big'ol_freeper]

Dogs rock

[Salamander]

OMG no.

Never again.

o_O

[Salamander]

I will watch it...and every other dog movie on earth, ‘cept Ol Yeller.

/A Dog’s Purpose

[ZULU]

Those two theories are also just speculation. Recently they found the footprints of a young child who was carrying a burning torch in some cave in France that dated at thousands of years ago. A large wolf or wolf-like dog left its prints alongside his.

I want to see it.