Garfield trailer debuts Chris Pratt's take on the iconic cat
The trailer for the upcoming Garfield animated movie looks all the way back on the adorable cat's roots.
Chris Pratt returns to the audio booth after lending his voice to Super Mario. He now turns into the voracious feline created by Jim Davis for The Garfield Movie, which is directed by Chicken Little's Mark Dindal.
The first trailer for the new Garfield outing, which has been in development since 2016, gives fans a glimpse of the cat when he was still a stray kitten. The clip sees baby Garfield's first encounter with his human John over a pepperoni pizza, which the cat proceeds to devour in seconds before going on to feast on several other delicacies.
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Set to hit cinemas next year, the film will shed some light on Garfield's true parentage with the introduction of Vic, a street cat and the protagonist's long-lost father voiced by Samuel L Jackson.
Despite their different lifestyles, Vic and Garfield show an uncanny resemblance and a similar appetite that casts little doubt as to their relation. In an effort to get to know the scruffy, tough Vic better, Garfield and his canine companion Odie will find themselves involved in a high-stake heist, leaving their lives of comfort behind.
Alongside Pratt and Jackson, the film boasts a star-studded voice cast, featuring Nicolas Hoult, Cecily Strong, Ving Rhames and Bowen Yang, as well as What We Do In The Shadows actor Harvey Guillén and Ted Lasso's Hannah Waddingham and Brett Goldstein.
Originally scheduled for a February 2024 release, The Garfield Movie is now expected to be out in US cinemas on May 24 next year, with release dates for other territories to be confirmed.
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Elsewhere in the feline universe, another ginger cat is set to get their cinematic place in the sun with the film adaptation of video game Stray.
Branded by Digital Spy as one of the best of 2022, the game allows users to play as a cute cat befriending a drone, with the two of them navigating the dangers of a cyberpunk city populated by robots and flesh-eating eyeball bugs in order to go back home.
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