The Garfield Movie(Movie, 2024)

The Garfield Movie is a 2024 animated comedy film based on the comic strip Garfield created by Jim Davis. A co-production between the United States, the United Kingdom and Hong Kong, the film was directed by Mark Dindal from a screenplay by Paul A. Kaplan, Mark Torgove, and David Reynolds. It serves as the sixth Garfield film adaptation, the third theatrically-released one, and is the first since Garfield's Pet Force (2009). Chris Pratt stars as the voice of the titular character, alongside the voices of Samuel L. Jackson, Hannah Waddingham, Ving Rhames, Nicholas Hoult, Cecily Strong, Harvey Guillén, Brett Goldstein, Bowen Yang, and Snoop Dogg. In the film, Garfield is reunited with his long-lost father, a street cat named Vic, before being forced into joining him on a high-stakes adventure. Development on The Garfield Movie started at Alcon Entertainment in May 2016. Dindal was announced as the film's director in November 2018, and pre-production began the following month. By 2021, Sony Pictures had already purchased the film rights for global distribution and Pratt was cast as Garfield, with the rest of the cast joining the following year. The film was animated by DNEG Animation, while... ()