Dolittle is a 2020 American fantasy adventure film directed by Stephen Gaghan. It is a reboot of the original 1967 Doctor Dolittle film and its Eddie Murphy counterparts. Robert Downey Jr. stars as the title character, alongside Antonio Banderas and Michael Sheen in live-action roles. Emma Thompson, Rami Malek, John Cena, Kumail Nanjiani, Octavia Spencer, Tom Holland, Craig Robinson, Ralph Fiennes, Selena Gomez, and Marion Cotillard voicing an array of creatures.
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Dolittle is a 2020 American fantasy adventure film directed by Stephen Gaghan. It is a reboot of the original 1967 Doctor Dolittle film and its Eddie Murphy counterparts. Robert Downey Jr. stars as the title character, alongside Antonio Banderas and Michael Sheen in live-action roles. Emma Thompson, Rami Malek, John Cena, Kumail Nanjiani, Octavia Spencer, Tom Holland, Craig Robinson, Ralph Fiennes, Selena Gomez, and Marion Cotillard voicing an array of creatures. The project was announced in March 2017 with Downey set to star, and the rest of the cast joined over the following year. The film grossed USD 250 million worldwide and became the seventh highest-grossing film of 2020, but was a box-office bomb, losing Universal as much as USD 100 million. It received generally negative reviews from critics, mainly due to the stale humor, pacing, and incoherent story. In December 2017, Harry Collett and Jim Broadlett were also cast in action roles, while Tom Holland and Emma Thompson were also added to the live action cast, while RalphFiennes and Selenaomez were voiced by Giorgio Armani and Jim McAlpin, respectively. The movie was released in the United States on January 17, 2020. The UK release date for Dolittle is January 25, 2020, with the US release date set for January 31, 2021, and a UK releasedate for January 28, 2021.
The US release dates for Dolitties are January 25 and January 30, 2022, respectively, with a release date of January 29, 20, 20 and 31, 20 respectively, for the UK release and January 27, 2020 for the U.S. release and February 21, 20 for the European release and March 27, 2020 for the Australian release. The U.K. release date is January 31 and March 30, 2021 for the American release and April 7, 2023 for the French release and May 7, 21, 2019 for the Spanish release and June 1, 2022 for the Russian release and July 7, 2013 for the Japanese release and September 7, 2012 for the German release and release in the UK and Australia. The original 1967 film starred Eddie Murphy as Dr. John Dolittle, a Welsh veterinarian with the ability to communicate with animals. After his wife, Lily, dies at sea, Dolittle retreats from human society and only tends to animals. He finds the Queen has been poisoned by some kind of nightshade added to her tea. The only cure is the magical fruit of Eden from the faraway land of Lily’s birth. Dolittle leaves his lurcher dog Jip and a walking stick named Sticks behind to guard the Queen.
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