A television series reboot of Turner & Hooch is coming to Disney+, with Josh Peck set to step into the role originated by Tom Hanks.
Disney+ has ordered 12 hour-long episodes based on the 1989 comedy Turner & Hooch, which starred Tom Hanks and Beasley the Dog as a police detective and the very large dog he inherits, respectively. Neither Hanks nor Beasley will return for the Disney+ series, for extremely different reasons. Instead, Josh Peck will take over the role of Scott Turner, in a series written and executive produced by The Gifted creator Matt Nix. Variety, who reported the series order, writes that the official logline follows "an ambitious, buttoned-up U.S. Marshall who inherits a big unruly dog. He soon …
Capitalizing on a hot property, Disney+ is jumping back thirty years to resurrect Turner & Hooch as a new series, Variety is reporting. And a resurrection is necessary, if you remember how that movie ended for its titular canine. The original 1989 film starred Tom Hanks as a police investigator who takes in a Dogue de Bordeaux (a French Mastiff, as we’d call it), formerly belonging to a murder victim. Hanks is Scott Turner. His new unwanted roommate (and sort of partner) is Hooch. This mongrel is a wrecking ball in Turner’s life, but there’s no place …