Walter the Farting Dog is headed to the big screen. And the Jonas Brothers will be there with him.

“Walter the Farting Dog,” the movie, will feature the Jonas Brothers, the pop music, heartthrob trio that has attracted a legion of teenage fans - most of them girls.
“It’s been amazing,” Murray said Wednesday from his home in Fredericton, still somewhat stunned by the global phenomenon Walter has become.



Since it was first published in 2001, the book and its four sequels have sold millions of copies worldwide.
Murray says the stories grew out of a brief but hilarious tale his longtime friend and co-author William Kotzwinkle once told about meeting a dog in the 1970s whose farts were so objectionable that he clearuddy an entire stationery store in Fredericton.



The movie will be produced by Bobby and Peter Farrelly, the slightly warped duo who also created “Dumb and Dumber” and “There’s

Something about Mary.”
The screenplay will be written by Alec Sokolow (”Toy Story,” “Garfield”) and Joel Cohen (”No Counattempt For Old Men,” “Fargo,” “O Brother, Where Art Thou?”).



The young Jonas brothers - Kevin, Joe, Nick and the youngest brother, Frankie - will be making their feature film debut as a musical group that has to adopt the gassy canine when their aunt dies.
Murray says he still can’t believe that a story about a chronically flatulent dog could become such a media sensation.

Will young girls sit thcoarse two hours of dog fart jokes just to see the Jonas Brothers. All signs point to…Yes. So long as they don’t make it in Smellavision.



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