Comic "Dilbert" Becomes Live-Action Movie

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http://www.darkhorizons.com/news/173...es-live-action

Comic "Dilbert" Becomes Live-Action

By Garth Franklin Wednesday May 26th 2010 04:19PM

Ken Kwapis ("The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants," "License to Wed") is attached to direct a live-action film adaptation of Scott Adams' comic strip "Dilbert" for Phoenix Entertainment and Intrigue Entertainment reports Pajiba.

Kicking off in 1989 and still running today, the comic follows an engineer in a white-collar, micromanaged company and satirises office politics and bureaucracy. He also has a pet named Dogbert.

Kwapis has a familiarity with the subject matter considering he has helmed quite a few episodes of the rather similar sitcom "The Office". Tariq Jalil ("Marmaduke") is producing.

The comic was previously adapted into an animated series in 1999.

[SMACK!]

Dilbert has already been live action.

[Spidey616]

Well, gotta be better than Marmaduke.

[cyberweasel]

Dilbert has already been live action.

...you know.... you're right. I wonder who else would play a good Dilbert.

[DAVE]

Dilbert has already been live action.

I was gonna say "Office Space".

[Mark4myself]

His work in Newsradio makes me think he'd be good for Dilbert plus he already voiced him.

[Mark4myself]

Dilbert has already been live action.

Drew Carey is great but...after seeing him sleepwalk through "The Price is Right" I don't know if he would be good to cast in anything at this point. Its painful watching him mess up games that everyone in the crowd knows how to play.

[EasyE726]

Really? I love Dilbert and that just seems odd...will Dogbert be CGI?

[I've Got the Monkeys]

His work in Newsradio makes me think he'd be good for Dilbert plus he already voiced him.

"Do it for Dilbert. Do it for Dogbert. Do it for Matthewbert!"

but seriously, Dilbert was voiced by Daniel Stern.

[Mark4myself]

"Do it for Dilbert. Do it for Dogbert. Do it for Matthewbert!"

but seriously, Dilbert was voiced by Daniel Stern.

D'oh!! My bad.