The trailer for The Garfield Movie, next summer’s animated movie about Jim Davis’ lasgana-loving tabby cat has pounced on the internet today. Columbia Pictures and Alcon Ent.’s animated feature is directed by Mark Dindal (The Emperor’s New Groove, Chicken Little), with a screenplay by Paul A. Kaplan, Mark Torgrove and David Reynolds. The cartoon character’s original creator Jim Davis is also the movie’s art director and exec producer. John Cohen, Broderick Johnson, Andrew A. Kosove, Steven P. Wegner, Craig Sost, Namit Malhotra and Crosby Clyse are the film’s producers.
Chris Pratt, fresh off his voicing duties on The Super Mario Bros. Movie, is voicing the grumpy cat, and Samuel L. Jackson stars as his long-lost father, a streetwise kitty named Vic. The voice cast also includes Hannah Waddingham, Ving Rhames, Nicholas Hoult, Cecily Strong, Harvey Guillén, Brett Goldstein and Bowen Yang.
Here’s the official synopsis: “Garfield, the world-famous, Monday-hating, lasagna-loving indoor cat, is about to have a wild outdoor adventure. After an unexpected reunion with his long-lost father – scruffy street cat Vic – Garfield and his canine friend Odie are forced from their perfectly pampered life into joining Vic in a hilarious, high-stakes heist.”
Exec producing are Jim Davis, Bridget McMeel, David Reynolds, Scott Parish, Carl Rogers, Simon Hedges, Chris Pflug, Louis Koo, Steve Sarowitz, Justin Baldwin and Peter Luo. The animation is produced by DNEG Animation.
The Garfield Movie will be released in theaters on May 24, 2024
Watch the trailer below:
