Brett Ferino
05-28-2003, 02:17 PM
HOLLYWOOD (Zap2it.com) – Actor/comedian Bill Murray will be providing the voice of Garfield the Cat in Peter Hewitt’s live-action/CGI picture “Garfield” for Twentieth Century Fox.
Based on Jim Davis’ immensely popular comic strip, and written by Joel Cohen and Alec Sokolow (“Toy Story”) the film centers on a sardonic cat who must tolerate the indignity of being saddled with a nebbish owner (Breckin Meyer) and a nitwit dog as housemates.
The comic strip, which celebrates its 25th anniversary next month, is syndicated in 2,570 newspapers in 111 countries, according to Variety.
Murray last appeared in Wes Anderson's 2001 film "The Royal Tenenbaums." He is set to re-team with Anderson and co-star/writer Owen Wilson this fall for an untitled adventure film about a French oceanographer. Murray's can next be this September in Sofia Coppola’s “Lost in Translation,” opposite Scarlett Johansson and Anna Faris.
Based on Jim Davis’ immensely popular comic strip, and written by Joel Cohen and Alec Sokolow (“Toy Story”) the film centers on a sardonic cat who must tolerate the indignity of being saddled with a nebbish owner (Breckin Meyer) and a nitwit dog as housemates.
The comic strip, which celebrates its 25th anniversary next month, is syndicated in 2,570 newspapers in 111 countries, according to Variety.
Murray last appeared in Wes Anderson's 2001 film "The Royal Tenenbaums." He is set to re-team with Anderson and co-star/writer Owen Wilson this fall for an untitled adventure film about a French oceanographer. Murray's can next be this September in Sofia Coppola’s “Lost in Translation,” opposite Scarlett Johansson and Anna Faris.