Here’s one of those reports we don’t realize we could have expected, even given his arrangement of encounters voicing stimulated characters: Samuel L. Jackson is joining Chris Pratt in the new energized film featuring famous cat Garfield.

Pratt is voicing the central individual, the abbreviated, lasagne appreciating/Monday abhorring feline made by Jim Davis and first appropriated in Stateside amusing kid’s shows in 1978. He’s since continued to be an organization and marketing behemoth, while moreover creating a couple of television series, the much-rebuked 2004 film named for himself as well as its side project, 2006’s Garfield: A Story Of Two Kitties, which saw Bill Murray giving the voice.

David Reynolds made the content for the new stimulated take, and it’ll be facilitated by his old The Sovereign’s New Notch accomplice Mark Dindal.

Jackson will play a flawless individual, Vic, who is Garfield’s father. We haven’t met him before in entertaining animation or activity structure (but Garfield’s mother and granddad have both appeared, close by changed people from his friends and family).

TONIGHT: The one, the only, @SamuelLJackson is here!

Treat yourself to a chat between him and Stephen at 11:35/10:35c, only on @CBS & @paramountplus.

— The Late Show (@colbertlateshow) September 28, 2022

There’s still no word yet on who will voice other key characters like Jon, Garfield’s owner, yet expect the commonplace spill channel of projecting news.

Garfield should be on isolates November one year from now. Concerning Jackson, he’ll next be heard rather than seen, voicing an individual in Paws Of Rage: The Legend Of Hank, which as of now just can’t certify a UK date. Most lately, he’s been busy rehashing Nick Wrath for Wonder’s Mysterious Attack Disney+ series.