Chris Pratt is going to voice the lasagna-loving, Monday-hating comic strip feline Garfield in an animated film. Alcon Entertainment is producing the movie, with Sony Pictures on board to release Garfield’s latest adventure in theatres. The release date will be announced another time. The upcoming film is hardly Garfield’s first bout with Hollywood.
He is actually no stranger to voice work, having recently led Disney and Pixar’s animated adventure Onward and also the Warner Bros. toy-based Lego Movie franchise. His casting as Mario in Universal’s new Super Mario Bros. adaptation has been somewhat divisive because Pratt is not Italian. In human form, he was last seen in the Amazon’s sci-fi epic The Tomorrow War and also will appear next in Jurassic World: Dominion. That is so amazing for him.
The first Garfield strip appeared in newspapers in 1978, and since then the cat has appeared in multiple television shows and two theatrical live-action animated hybrid movies, with three direct-to-video films. In the 2004 and 2006 movies, Garfield was voiced by comedian Bill Murray, with his owner, Jon Arbuckle, played by Breckin Meyer.
Sources: Polygon.