The actor, already doing a movie about Nintentdo’s Mario, is taking on a role that Murray famously mocked.<\/b>
\nIn Zombieland, Bill Murray famously joked that voicing Garfield (twice!) was his biggest regret. But clearly that didn\u2019t bother his one-episode Parks and Recreation co-star Chris Pratt. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the sometimes beleaguered Marvel star has signed on to voice the comic strip world\u2019s most grouchy feline, who has hated Mondays and loved lasagna for over 43 years and counting. Details about the new film are still thin on the ground, but it does come from respectable pedigree. The attached screenwriter, David Reynolds, co-wrote Finding Nemo, while its director, Mark Dindal, did the delightful Disney movie The Emperor\u2019s New Groove. Perhaps they can mine riches from the premise of a lazy cat, his terminally single (and possibly depressed) owner, and his frenemy, a dog. (Maybe they\u2019ll even bring in Nermal.) Jim Davis\u2019 strip, the most widely circulated in the world, has made it to screens before. There were a dozen TV specials from the \u201880s into the early \u201890s, and even a Saturday morning TV show. In the aughts, Garfield made it to the movies, voiced by Murray. In the role he later mocked, Murray took over for Lorenzo Music, the similar-sounding voice actor who had already voiced the animated version of him in the Ghostbusters daytime cartoon show. And now there\u2019s Pratt, who is already tied up with another animated film, voicing Mario the plumber in a take on the Nintendo character. The news inspired lots of people to question whether Pratt is the right man to voice a cat. hard to think of an actor who has more \u201ci actually love mondays\u201d vibes https:\/\/t.co\/9sLxZQEQpQ Brandy Jensen (@BrandyLJensen) November 1,2021 why chris pratt in every animated movie make it stop https:\/\/t.co\/THyXqlGZa1 \u2014 stephen ???? (@multiofmad) November 1,2021 The Chris Pratt animated universe has begun https:\/\/t.co\/eKKDrMmXZf \u2014 Hag (@horrorandgamer) November 1,2021 we need to launch a full federal investigation into what kind of dirt chris pratt has on hollywood executives https:\/\/t.co\/c5sCBxcllx \u2014 bethany (@fiImgal) November 1,2021 first mario, now garfield pic.twitter.com\/okjB2sADKd \u2014 ????????\u0394???????? (@bourbonbun) November 1,2021 Others wanted Murray to come back, though that almost certainly ain\u2019t happening, and not because he may be busy with the MCU. Only Bill Murray can voice Garfield. I think it says so in the Constitution\u2026 https:\/\/t.co\/AuBDhD7O8N \u2014 Pulp Librarian (@PulpLibrarian) November 1,2021 Someone go check on Bill Murray and make sure he doesn’t die laughing. https:\/\/t.co\/caIcbh8S5U \u2014 The Call is Coming from Inside the Nash (@Nash076) November 1,2021 they should get someone good like Bill Murray!!! https:\/\/t.co\/iqbHbgYKlQ \u2014 Ryan Letourneau (@Northernlion) November 1,2021 wtf bill murray is still alive and working https:\/\/t.co\/pGKh5szH7K \u2014 slate (@PleaseBeGneiss) November 1,2021 (Via THR)<\/p>\n