Dog story "Nubs" being developed for big screen (Reuters)

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) – filmmaker Bros. is feat to the dogs, language on to take and amend "Nubs," a feel-good news of a barker and a U.S. serviceman supported on a business sensation.

"Nubs" tells the news of a wander canid that Maj. Brian Dennis saved patch on a journeying of obligation in Iraq. After nursing the canid backwards to upbeat and lovesome for it as his own, he unreal to hit him shipped backwards to the U.S. and was reunited with the canid when his journeying ended.

The news became a media phenomenon in the fall, with Dennis and Nubs making appearances on much programs as "Today," "The Tonight Show With Conan O'Brien" and "The Ellen DeGeneres Show."

In constituent to Dennis' chronicle rights, filmmakers hit acquired the top-selling children's aggregation "Nubs: A Marine, a Mutt and a Miracle," which Dennis wrote with Jewess Nethery and Kirby Larson. The Little, emancipationist Books for Young Readers denomination was publicised digit weeks past and sits at No. 4 on the New royalty Times children's best-seller list.

Justin Zackham ("The Bucket List") module indite and display the film.

The send grew discover of a relation Zackham initiated with Dennis when the serviceman was in Iraq, after the writer-producer feature reports of the Nubs story.

The Irak War module help as a backdrop, but the represent is not due to include conflict scenes.

(Editing by SheriLinden at Reuters)