Barking: Sam Neill's new pet project

At first, Toa Fraser thought the idea for his new film was a little strange. There he was, looking for a follow-up to the heart-warming, sad, and often hilarious No. 2, and the Kiwi director gets presented with a movie script about a priest who thinks he was a dog in a past life.

A welsh springer spaniel, with lovely floppy ears who goes by the name of Wag, to be exact.

I tell Fraser, on the phone from London, that I liked Dean Spanley, which stars Sam Neill as the eccentric Spanley. MORE>>