The Call of the Wild is a 2020 American adventure film based on Jack London‘s 1903 novel of the same name. Directed by Chris Sanders, in his live-action directorial debut, and his first film without a co-director, the film was written by Michael Green, and stars Harrison Ford, Omar Sy, Cara Gee, Dan Stevens, Karen Gillan, and Bradley Whitford. Set during the 1890s Klondike Gold Rush, the film follows a dog named Buck as he is stolen from his home in California and sent to the Yukon, where he befriends an old outdoorsman and begins a life-altering adventure.

The Call of the Wild was released in the United States on February 21, 2020, by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures through their 20th Century Studios banner (its first film under the company’s current name). It received mixed reviews from critics, who praised Ford’s performance and the “entertaining action and earnest tone” but criticized the “uncanny” CGI of the animals.^[8] Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, it was a box-office bomb, grossing $111 million against a production budget of $125–150 million, and lost the studio an estimated $50–100 million.