…And that is how Garfield adopted Jon.
Sony Pictures Animation has launched a trailer for The Garfield Movie, the upcoming animated function based mostly on the long-running newspaper comedian and starring Guardians of the Galaxy‘s Chris Pratt in the lead function. The film appears to fill in some blanks as to how Jon Arbuckle and Garfield first got here collectively. It’s based mostly on the iconic cartoon by Jim Davis, which first debuted in 1978. There had been beforehand two Garfield function movies starring Bill Murray, which had been launched in 2004 and 2006, in addition to innumerable TV and direct-to-video motion pictures over the years. The character is certainly one of the most merchandised in historical past, and in addition certainly one of the most memed on the web, with Garfield horror changing into its personal shockingly widespread (and infrequently shockingly bleak) subgenre on-line.
The character has additionally been showing in quite a lot of video video games not too long ago, together with in the Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl franchise. The Garfield model is now owned by Nickelodeon, so anticipate lots extra non-movie appearances if the film seems to be a giant hit. Like how Sony plans to capitalize on Spider-Man after Marvel breathed contemporary air into his motion pictures, it is laborious to think about Nick not eager to do one thing with their very own IP if Sony efficiently brings it to the huge display screen.
Per the studio’s official synopsis, “Garfield (voiced by Chris Pratt), the world-famous, Monday-hating, lasagna-loving indoor cat, is about to have a wild outdoor adventure! After an unexpected reunion with his long-lost father – scruffy street cat Vic (voiced by Samuel L. Jackson) – Garfield and his canine friend Odie are forced from their perfectly pampered life into joining Vic in a hilarious, high-stakes heist.”
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Chris Pratt will voice the titular cat in the film, and he can be joined by some huge names. Garfield additionally stars Samuel L. Jackson, Nicholas Hoult, Hannah Waddingham, Cecily Strong, Ving Rhames, Brett Goldstein, and Bowen Yang
The movie will function a reunion for each Ted Lasso and Saturday Night Live. Goldstein has starred alongside Waddingham all through all three seasons of Ted Lasso, every taking house Emmys for his or her roles on the Apple TV+ collection. Meanwhile, Yang and Strong have labored collectively for a number of seasons of Saturday Night Live.
Garfield is being directed by Mark Dindal, who helmed The Emperor’s New Groove and Chicken Little for Disney. The screenplay was written by Paul A. Kaplan, David Reynolds, and Mark Torgrove.
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