Why Bill Murray regrets the Garfield movie

[CptStern]

lol this is hilarious:

Funnyman Bill Murray regrets lending his voice to animated film Garfield to work with his idol, comedy writer Joel Coen - because he realized too late the part was written by a different Joel Cohen.

The actor admits he jumped at the chance to play the fat cat in the 2004 live-action film, loosely based on the Jim Davis comic strip Garfield - when he thought one half of the Oscar-winning Coen brothers filmmaking duo was attached to the script. However, he didn't realize until it was too late that another writer with a similar name had actually worked on the screenplay - and it wasn't funny.

Murray tells GQ magazine, "I thought it would be kind of fun, because doing a voice is challenging, and I'd never done that. Plus, I looked at the script, and it said, "So-and-so and Joel Cohen.' And I thought: 'Christ, well, I love those Coens!' They're funny. So I sorta read a few pages of it and thought, 'Yeah, I'd like to do that.'"

"Finally I went out to L.A. to record my lines... and the lines got worse and worse. And I said, 'Okay, you better show me the whole rest of the movie, so we can see what we're dealing with.' So I sat down and watched the whole thing, and I kept saying, 'Who the hell cut this thing? Who did this? What the f**k was Coen thinking? And then they explained it to me: it wasn't written by Joel Coen."

http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2010/07/19/bill_murray_regrets_garfield

 

[Sliver]

Another great quote:

I had these agents at the time, and I said, "What do they give you to do one of these things?" And they said, "Oh, they give you $50,000." So I said, "Okay, well, I don't even leave the ****in' driveway for that kind of money."

Take from http://www.screened.com/news/bill-murray-hilariously-curmudgeonly/463/

 

[Druckles]

I saw Burn After Reading. It pained me.

 

[Deleted member 56031]

Burn after reading, garfield AND no country for old men pained me :|

 

[Ennui]

Garfield was not written by Joel Coen, it was written by Joel Cohen who is a completely different guy that had nothing to do with No Country for Old Men or Burn After Reading.

Both of which are excellent movies by the way, although Burn After Reading is one of the weaker Coen movies.

 

[PvtRyan]

He mentioned regretting Garfield in the move Zombieland as well

 

[MuToiD_MaN]

Hahaha, burned by the non-union Mexican counterpart.

 

[Druckles]

Both of which are excellent movies by the way, although Burn After Reading is one of the weaker Coen movies.

A matter of taste, as far as I could tell.

 

[Bad^Hat]

Personally enjoyed Burn more than No Country, although the latter was clearly the more well made movie.

IMDB says this guy also wrote the screenplay for Toy Story, though.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0169505/

... As well as Evan Almighty. Ew.

Edit: Never mind, he was just one in a crew of writers: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114709/fullcredits#writers

Including... Joss Whedon? Heh, news to me.

 

[Yuri]

A matter of taste, as far as I could tell.

I think it depends quite a bit on your sense of humor.

also rofl Bill Murray, you're my hero