Proving that even rivals facing off on opposite sides of the Sith-Jedi divide can come together in the name of the one true unifying Force in the universe—dogs—Star Wars co-stars Adam Driver and Mark Hamill teamed up to help rescue a canine companion earlier this week. Specifically, the two collaborated on the rescue of Javelot, a 9-year-old pupper owned by Leos Carax, Driver’s current director on the Marion Cotillard musical Annette.
Per The Hollywood Reporter, efforts began when Driver filmed a video of himself in a park in Brussels, begging viewers to help him and the rest of the movie’s crew locate the missing pooch. “We will put you in the movie. We’ll give you chocolate. We’ll christen your child. We’ll do anything as a way of saying thank you,” he promises in the clip. (Note: We are legally obligated to remind you that there are easier ways to acquire chocolate than kidnapping and returning Adam Driver’s dog.)
Driver—a social media neophyte—then turned to his old master for a little help in getting the word out. Hamill dutifully tweeted out Driver’s plea to the 3.3 million people who follow him, one of whom spotted Javelot at a train station, and pup and master were reunited through the unifying and awe-inspiring power of famous. It’s one of those rare heartwarming stories that could have really only happened in the era of social media, and it’s a nice reminder that our endless connectivity to each other can bear some positive dividends, as well. (But also, we cannot emphasize this enough: Do not kidnap Adam Driver’s dog.)
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Somehow y’all posted a story in which you call the dog Leos Carax’s, then talk about it like it’s Adam Driver’s, then Leos Carax’s, then Adam Driver’s, while embedding a tweet that makes it clear that it’s Leos Carax’s. That just seems like the simplest part of the story and you still can’t write about it clearly. Why would anyone kidnap Adam Driver’s dog when he isn’t even part of the story? Does Adam Driver even have a dog to kidnap? Why is this written so weird?
Shut it. I’m enjoying the heart warming ending to the Dog being found regardless of whoever the hell’s dog he is.
I’m obsessed with Adam Driver so I’m definitely not complaining about its existence as a story it just feels like they either didn’t understand it or were trying to shoehorn in some weird jokes that didn’t fit. And I will never shut it!!!!
And I will never shut it!!!!The A.V. Club
Also my kids when I tell them to close the GOD DAMN back door…I mean, were they born in a barn?*Narrator – they weren’t, but acted like they were.
My kids were born in a Barn…es & Noble.
Now that is an accurate one!
Sometimes reading this site is like reading when you’re high.
And that’s exactly why I don’t read while high. Too frustrating. Just like here.
You could remake Taken as a movie about a kidnapped dog and the owner who will find the kidnappers. (This also has about as much to do with the article as Adam Driver’s dog – but let’s be honest: we’d all watch that movie.)…starring The Rock.
I would not watch that movie because Mrs Lizardo would be screaming at the evil dog-nappers for 90 minutes and loudly proclaiming that they should be castrated and tortured no matter how many times I tried to explain to her that it was a fictional story.
*eddie izzard voice*AS WELL SHE SHOULD.
I would watch her watch that movie.
Isn’t dog-based vengeance what John Wick is about?Seven Psychopaths is dognapping-centric.
I would not watch that movie.
Put men in jeopardy. Put women in jeopardy. Put children, newborn babies in jeopardy. Whatever, it’s fiction. I’ll watch it. But do not put dogs in jeopardy!
…Starring Key and PeeleThey have a related history!
JAVELOOOOOOOT !
so i gotta be in Belgium with goddamn patron-of-the-arts level money to see what Carax is up to these days huh?
Kylo Ren is not a Sith. I hope another G/O site doesn’t get shuttered for this blunder.
I sort of didn’t see it coming that Driver was going to turn out to be ridiculously handsome. It snuck up on me.
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