Somewhere out there, Owen Wilson is sitting in front of a mirror and practicing his barks. THR says he’s been hired to voice Marmaduke the Great Dane in Fox’s upcoming computer animated movie named, appropriately, Marmaduke.

It’s based on the theoretically popular (because it’s in a lot of papers, though I’ve never met anyone who likes it) comic strip about a really big dog who gets into all sorts of trouble. I’m no expert on the strip, but I had no idea that dog actually spoke in it. Isn’t it just a bunch of humans standing around commenting on how their dog is too big to fit into such a small space? I could be wrong. See, it’s hilarious because he’s so big!

Owen probably should have talked to Bill Murray about Garfield before committing to this. Doing a voice in a Pixar movie like Cars is one thing. This however, has epic fail written all over it.