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Bill Murray's Garfield blunder...
« on: Jul 21, 2010, 07:12:52 AM »
Merla pointed this out to me.  I don't know about you, but I don't see how who wrote the script would encourage or discourage anyone from voicing Garfield.  I mean, it's GARFIELD.  Even if the movie had been a masterpiece, it would STILL be irrelevant on his resume.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/filmblog/2010/jul/21/bill-murray-garfield

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Murray reveals that he picked up Garfield's script and noted that it was written by one Joel Cohen. Mistakenly believing this to be the celebrated co-architect of dark comedies The Big Lebowski and O Brother, Where Art Thou? (rather than the creator of such gems as Evan Almighty and Daddy Day Camp, whose name has an additional "h"), Murray happily signed up. His mistake only became clear when he turned up to record his voiceover. Sample line: "I think I'm going to blow cat-chow chunks!"

"Finally, I went out to LA to record my lines," Murray tells GQ. "And usually when you're looping a movie, if it takes two days, that's a lot. I don't know if I should even tell this story, because it's kind of mean. What the hell? It's interesting.

"So I worked all day and kept going, 'That's the line? Well, I can't say that'. And you sit there and go, 'What can I say that will make this funny? And make it make sense?' And I worked. I was exhausted, soaked with sweat, and the lines got worse and worse. And I said, 'OK, 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 fuck was Coen thinking?' And then they explained it to me: it wasn't written by that Joel Coen."

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Re: Bill Murray's Garfield blunder...
« Reply #1 on: Jul 21, 2010, 07:39:17 AM »
HA! Jews.
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Re: Bill Murray's Garfield blunder...
« Reply #2 on: Jul 21, 2010, 12:00:41 PM »
It's Garfield. Did he really think Coen Brothers where taking this on? If he is that dense he deserved his discomfort. And he signed on for Garfield 2 even after finding out this fact.

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Re: Bill Murray's Garfield blunder...
« Reply #3 on: Jul 22, 2010, 05:42:42 AM »
It was probably a package deal.  You know, like how a lot of action flicks sign the stars on to do three movies so there can be a trilogy-gasm in the event the first film's a hit.

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Re: Bill Murray's Garfield blunder...
« Reply #4 on: Jul 22, 2010, 03:07:35 PM »
Could be. Wonder if he tried to worm his way out of it. Murray has a reputation for being hard to work with.

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Re: Bill Murray's Garfield blunder...
« Reply #5 on: Jul 22, 2010, 07:35:04 PM »
He was great in Zombieland.
I said its hot outside let me go swimming in your eyes;
We been running for awhile. Why don't you lay dow, I'll make you smile.
I could never ask for nothing better than this;
It's just tequila and the beach, it's quite salty when we kiss.

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Re: Bill Murray's Garfield blunder...
« Reply #6 on: Jul 22, 2010, 07:48:12 PM »
Everyone was great in Zombieland.
Get a little closer let it fold
Cut open my sternum and pull
My little ribs around you

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Re: Bill Murray's Garfield blunder...
« Reply #7 on: Jul 23, 2010, 12:26:59 AM »
When he gets on screen he is, but it's behind the scenes that he tend to make it hard for people.

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Re: Bill Murray's Garfield blunder...
« Reply #8 on: Jul 23, 2010, 07:46:42 AM »
Well he's Bill Murray. I think he earned it.
I said its hot outside let me go swimming in your eyes;
We been running for awhile. Why don't you lay dow, I'll make you smile.
I could never ask for nothing better than this;
It's just tequila and the beach, it's quite salty when we kiss.

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Re: Bill Murray's Garfield blunder...
« Reply #9 on: Jul 23, 2010, 12:09:27 PM »
Yeah but we aren't talking about Stripes/Ghostbusters/Groundhog Day Bill Murray anymore. This is Charlies' Angels Bill Murray.

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Re: Bill Murray's Garfield blunder...
« Reply #10 on: Jul 23, 2010, 01:54:45 PM »
Lucy Liu is a bit of a cunt, I'm sure.

Apparently he's doing Garfield III. Why not?
I said its hot outside let me go swimming in your eyes;
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It's just tequila and the beach, it's quite salty when we kiss.

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Re: Bill Murray's Garfield blunder...
« Reply #11 on: Jul 23, 2010, 11:41:08 PM »
Lucy Liu is a bit of a cunt, I'm sure.

Apparently he's doing Garfield III. Why not?

Don't you mean Ghostbusters III?

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Re: Bill Murray's Garfield blunder...
« Reply #12 on: Jul 24, 2010, 12:07:24 AM »
Probably doing both.

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Re: Bill Murray's Garfield blunder...
« Reply #13 on: Jul 24, 2010, 10:56:48 AM »
Lucy Liu is a bit of a cunt, I'm sure.

Apparently he's doing Garfield III. Why not?

Don't you mean Ghostbusters III?
From what I heard, he's doing Garfield III for the money, since it doesn't require much effort.
I said its hot outside let me go swimming in your eyes;
We been running for awhile. Why don't you lay dow, I'll make you smile.
I could never ask for nothing better than this;
It's just tequila and the beach, it's quite salty when we kiss.

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Re: Bill Murray's Garfield blunder...
« Reply #14 on: Jul 25, 2010, 12:21:52 AM »
As if there was any other reason to do a Garfield III.

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Re: Bill Murray's Garfield blunder...
« Reply #15 on: Jul 25, 2010, 11:43:24 AM »
Artistic Integri... HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
I said its hot outside let me go swimming in your eyes;
We been running for awhile. Why don't you lay dow, I'll make you smile.
I could never ask for nothing better than this;
It's just tequila and the beach, it's quite salty when we kiss.