Bill Murray is to reunite with his Lost in Translation director Sofia Coppola for a carol-singing Christmas TV special, it has been announced.
Details are thin on the ground, but the actor told Variety: “We’re going to do it like a little movie. It won’t have a format, but it’s going to have music.”
Adding that “it’s not going to be live”, Murray suggested, cryptically: “It will have texture. It will have threads through it that are writing. There will be prose … It will have a patina, style and wit to it. It will be nice.”
Coppola apparently confirmed the project will be a Christmas special, saying: “My motivation is to hear him singing my song requests.”
Murray has rarely needed much encouragement to pic up a microphone. He sings Bob Dylan’s Shelter From the Storm in his most recent film, St Vincent, and often takes part in impromptu karaoke or jam sessions, such as his rendition of Brandy (You’re a Fine Girl) at a party after a pro-am golf tournament in 2012 (with Clint Eastwood on guitar).
