The team behind box office hit Red Dog is reuniting for another film called Blue Dog, exploring the origins of the beloved canine.
In the 1970s, Red Dog hitched rides and travelled by foot through the Pilbara, adopting people and uniting the community on the road to Dampier.
Producer Nelson Woss is again teaming up with writer Daniel Taplitz and director Kriv Stenders for Blue Dog.
He says Blue Dog will be a stand-alone film, rather than a prequel, and hopes to follow it up with a third film called Yellow Dog.
"Red Dog had a terrific connection with the audience, but I didn't think it naturally lent itself to a standard sequel or prequel," he told AAP on Friday.
But when Taplitz came up with a script for an origin story, Woss thought it would be a good way of celebrating the Red Dog legend.
"It's an iconic coming-of-age story about growing up in Australia," Woss said of the plot.
He says if you like dogs, you will like Blue Dog, which will have a similar budget to Red Dog and will also use local talent and locations.
The filmmaker said the first film would never have been made without the support of the Pilbara community and hoped to have the premier of Blue Dog there as they did with Red Dog.
If Yellow Dog is made as planned, it will be set in the world of Australia's military, Woss said.
The busy producer has also created a distribution company called Good Dog Enterprises, which will distribute films about "iconic Australian stories".
The WA government will support Blue Dog through ScreenWest, and Screen Australia will also provide funding.
Red Dog, which won best film at the inaugural 2012 AACTA Awards, earned more than $21 million at the box office, making it the ninth highest grossing Australian film of all time.
