'Garfield was an accident!' Bill Murray thought The Coen Brothers were behind low brow film… but only realised his mistake after already signing on



Bill Murray claims he signed onto Garfield thinking it was a Coen Brothers feature.



But the comedy legend says he only learned that he had been in error once he had already begun his first day of filming.



The 63-year-old maintained on Friday he wasn’t ‘thinking clearly’ when he read the script’s byline, mistaking the actual writer Joel Cohen for the celebrated screenwriter Joel Coen.



It was an accident: Bill Murray claims he signed onto Garfield thinking it was a Coen Brother feature, pictured in Los Angles in January

The Caddyshack icon revealed his error during a question and answer session with fans on Reddit.



Not his best work: The 63-year-old says 2004's Garfield was an accident

The Lost In Translation star was asked during the online Q&A if there would be a third instalment to Garfield.



And Murray responded with a lengthy chunk of text to state he didn’t ‘think so’, apparently feeling the need to explain why he had signed on to the less than comedy gold project.



The actor wrote: ‘I had looked at the screenplay and it said "Joel Cohen" on it.



‘And I wasn't thinking clearly, but it was spelled Cohen, not Coen.



‘I love the Coen brothers movies. I think that Joel Coen is a wonderful comedic mind.



‘So I didn't really bother to finish the script, I thought "he's great, I'll do it."’



But months later after he finally got around to recording his dialogue, Murray was surprised by how badly written the film actually was.



It was then that he finally realised he had signed onto a film written by someone other than he thought.



Murray claims he demanded: ‘“Who wrote this stuff?"’ only to learn that one of the people in the room was the ‘misspelled Joel Cohen’.



The 2004 cartoon-inspired film was a box office success pulling in over $200million worldwide.



But the second instalment in 2006 went straight to video.

Legend: The actor pictured in one of his most poignant performances in 2003's Lost In Translation

In the same Q&A session Murray claimed to not remember an incident related by a fan where he stole a French Fry their plate at a fast food restaurant and then looked them in the eye and said 'No one will ever believe you'.

The actor also spoke humorously about his time in Japan while filming 2003's Lost In Translation: 'I would go to sushi bars with a book I had called Making Out In Japanese. It was a small paperback book, with questions like "can we get into the back seat?" "do your parents know about me?" "do you have a curfew?"

'And I would say to the sushi chef "Do you have a curfew? Do your parents know about us? And can we get into the back seat?"'





