Spunky, The Malevolent Cocker Spaniel (2024)

Spunky: The Malevolent Cocker Spaniel will be a British adult stop motion television special produced by Laika, Williams Street and THX, the short received high and very good reviews. Based on a young adult short story of the same name written and illustrated by M. Dayanna. It will air on Adult Swim on May 25, 2025.

The plot follows some dogs that live with their worst owner named Agnes. The pack lived in slavery to Spunky, a sadistic and cannibalistic cocker spaniel who poisons Blackie, the former leader of the good-hearted dogs. Spunky maliciously has a plan to devour to all dogs. dogs in full moon and be the only one.

Plot
Some dogs that live with their owner named Agnes who mistreats them, despite behaving well, except for Spunky, a narcissistic and psychopathic cocker spaniel, decide to have a meeting in the basement of the garden. Blackie talks about what they are going through, a small mongrel dog named Brunito who tells him if he dies who would be the leader, so he prepares an evil plan for Spunky, throws a strong poison at him, dies and becomes the leader.

The Beginning
After the publication on Wattpad, Christopher Nolan read the story and loved it a lot, due to the success of his movie  Radcliffe: A Different Adventure , he started the idea in 2022 and asked some friends to make Stop-Motion to the short film I accept and almost would be the porcelain objects the characters, almost the draft was made all sketch.

Launch Confirmation
He presented the first sketch in 2023, almost a complicated job, an agreement on the actors and characters, the producer almost with a machine to be able to move the characters, Christopher Nolan said that it could be launched by 2025.