Editors Bill Hoy, ACE and David Heinz join us on this week's Rough Cut to talk about teaching an old dog some new tricks on, The Call of the Wild. Having cut their "vfx teeth" together on Dawn of the Planet of the Apes and War for the Planet of the Apes, David and Bill were no strangers to working in a largely digital domain. But editing a film where the star was never really there took things to a whole new level. They talk about the challenges this entailed in terms of managing performance and pacing, as well as how they went about taming Jack London's legendary The Call of The Wild into a family-friendly story that stayed true to its source material. We answer the burning question of whether or not dogs do ADR and discuss how to tell a great story that often has no words.

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