The "Groundhog Day" actor details his experience working on two critically panned animated Garfield movies in a 15-paragraph response to a Reddit user's query.
In a Jan. 17 interview with fans on the website Reddit, actor Bill Murray answered numerous questions, including if there will be a third installment of the animated “Garfield” movie franchise.
“I don’t think so,” Murray responded. “I had a hilarious experience with ‘Garfield.'”
“I only read a few pages of it,” the “Stripes” star explained. “And I kind of wanted to do a cartoon movie, because I had looked at the screenplay and it said ‘Joel Cohen’on it.”
The actor and comedian confessed to Reddit users that he lovesĀ “the Coen brothers movies. I think that Joel Coen is a wonderful comedic mind.”
“So I didn’t really bother to finish the script, I thought ‘he’s great, I’ll do it.'”
But Joel Coen, who penned “Fargo,” “The Big Lebowski” and “O Brother, Where Art Thou?,” was not the same “Joel Cohen” who penned the screenplay for the animated Garfield movie.
Before completing all of the voice parts Murray — who never read the entire script — requested to see the future punching bag of critics in full. “There was just this long, two minute silence,” Murray told fans.
“And I probably cursed a little, and I said ‘I can fix this, but I can’t fix this today. Or this week. Who wrote this stuff?'”
Of the experience, Murray notes, “It was sort of like ‘Fantastic Mr. Fox’ without the joy or the fun.” Despite this, the movie went on to gross more than $200 million worldwide.
The studio “sort of shot themselves in the foot, the kidneys, the liver and the pancreas on the second one,” shared Murray concerning the sequel, 2006’s “Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties.” “The girl, Jennifer Love-Hewitt, she was sweet. In the second movie they dressed her like a homeless person. You knew it wasn’t gonna go well.”
Bill Murray stars in “The Monuments Men,” written and directed by the real George Clooney, out Feb. 7.
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