Goo Boy! was a moderately successful movie produced by Jim Henson Pictures and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, starring talking alien dogs. The movie starred Liam Aiken as Owen Baker, as well as Matthew Broderick, Delta Burke, Donald Faison, Cheech Marin, Brittany Murphy, Vanessa Redgrave, and Carl Reiner were the voice cast for the abundant dog characters in the movie. The movie was based on the book Dogs from Outer Space by Zeke Richardson. Josh Hoffman and Zeke Richardson collaborated on the screen story, while John Robert Hoffman wrote the screenplay.