The actor, already doing a movie about Nintentdo’s Mario, is taking on a role that Murray famously mocked.
In Zombieland, Bill Murray famously joked that voicing Garfield (twice!) was his biggest regret. But clearly that didn’t 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’s 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’s 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’ll even bring in Nermal.) Jim Davis’ strip, the most widely circulated in the world, has made it to screens before.
