Guardians Of The Galaxy star Pratt arrived at the TCL Chinese Theatre in Hollywood for the film’s world premiere, standing on the top deck of a double decker bus dedicated to The Garfield Movie – set for release in the UK on May 24. Pratt stars as the cantankerous cat – who began life in a comic series in 1978 by creator Jim Davis – alongside Samuel L Jackson who plays Garfield’s long-lost father Vic, and Ted Lasso star Hannah Waddingham who voices villain Jinx. Filmmaker Dindal told the PA news agency they started the process “finding clips of Chris (Pratt) from interviews and other films and cut them to images of Garfield that we had from the movie and his voice fit”, before approaching the Hollywood star for the role.
“It’s really incredible, it’s kind of surreal actually,” Pratt told PA of being handpicked to play Garfield. “As a kid I used to get the newspaper, there would be a comic strip and a movie section right next to each other, I’d pull it out – this was up in Alaska – and I’d look at what movies were coming and I’d read the comics. “I think probably before I could even read I just looked at the pictures.
“To think now I’m doing something incorporating both of those things (movies and Garfield) is pretty surreal.” The 44-year-old later said “I don’t know what he saw in me” but that they just wanted him to bring his “spirit” to the role . “They’ve been working on this for years, they brought it to me and he (D.
