Chris Pratt is returning for a Garfield sequel.
Chris Pratt will star in another Garfield movie
The Guardians of the Galaxy star lent his voice to 2024’s The Garfield Movie – which grossed over $260 million worldwide – and it has been confirmed he will be back to play the lazy lasagne-loving tabby once again.
Alcon Entertainment’s co-founders and co-CEOs Andrew Kosove and Broderick Johnson confirmed the news, and it was also revealed Chris will serve as a producer, along with John Cohen, Steven P.Wegner and the studio’s two executives.
Namit Malhotra’s production company Prime Focus Studios will co-produce the film alongside Alcon Entertainment. In addition, following their work on The Garfield Movie, DNEG Animation are back onboard as animation partner.
No further casting details have yet been announced, and Deadline reports producers are currently in talks with potential writers and directors.
Cartoonist Jim Davis first created the loveable ginger cat for a comic in 1978, and the titular moggy was joined by owner Jon Arbuckle and his pet dog Odie.
The mischievous kitty made its big-screen debut in the live-action/animated 2004 film Garfield, which got a sequel, Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties, two years later.
Garfield originally appeared in 41 newspapers, but its success led to it developing an estimated readership of 260 million across 2,580 newspapers and journals, and it currently holds the record as the most widely syndicated comic strip in the world.
Meanwhile, Chris – who is best known for starring in the Guardians of the Galaxy and Jurassic World film series -recently admitted he plays a “Sliding Doors version” of the same character in his “big commercial” movies.
During an interview with ‘Entertainment Weekly’, Chris, 45, was asked about similarities between his character Peter Quill/Star-Lord in the Guardians of the Galaxy movies and his role of John D. Keats in new movie The Electric State and he explained: “I kind of like to think, hopefully, that’s like every character I ever play though, in this tone, something that’s like a big, family friendly, raucous, adventure, sci-fi film,.
“When it’s a big commercial tone like this, you’re going to get a Sliding Doors version of the characters that I like to play.”
Chris was referring to Gwyneth Paltrow’s 1998 movie Sliding Doors in which she played two versions of the same character involved in different storylines after their lives diverge at a certain point.
The actor went on to add of Quill and Keats: “[They both] have a journey; they find something bigger than themselves to want to fight for and are willing to sacrifice themselves for.
“There’s [Keats] talking to an animated character through the course of it. So I guess, even now, just in this interview, I’m realizing that there are similarities.
“[Keats] kind of feels like what Peter Quill could have been if he didn’t get picked up and go to space, but instead lived through a robot war and went on the run with his robot friend.”