Sony Pictures have given Garfield a date on which he can crawl from his bed onto the big-screen with the studio setting a February 16th, 2024 release for Jim Davis’ iconic feline.
Starring animations new man of a thousand voices, Chris Pratt (he will also be Mario in an upcoming Super Mario Bros. film), as the laconic cat, alongside Samuel L. Jackson as a new character called Vic, reported to be Garfield’s father, this latest adaptation of the 44-year old comic-strip will see Chicken Little‘s Mark Dindal directing from a script written by Finding Nemo‘s David Reynolds. The two previously worked together on underrated Disney gem The Emperor’s New Groove.
Originally published in 1978, Garfield was created by Jim Davis and chronicles the life of the title character Garfield, his human owner Jon Arbuckle, and Odie the dog. He was first brought to life by voiceover extraordinaire Lorenzo Music, who you’ll also recognise from 80s classic cartoon The Real Ghostbusters, before the baton was handed to Bill Murray for two lacklustre blockbusters in the mid-noughties – Garfield (2004) and Garfield: A Tale of Two Kitties – that still grossed over $345M worldwide.
As well as his two forthcoming voiceover ventures, Pratt has successfully voiced Emmet in the LEGO movies, as well as Barley Lightfoot in Pixar’s Onward.
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