We're pretty sure Bill Murray could read Santa's naughty list for happy-claps at this point, but instead he'll apparently be singing Christmas carols on TV. So warm up those smile muscles, grinches -- let's just go with this.
That's right, Murray is working with his Lost in Translation director Sofia Coppola on a made-for-television Christmas special, according to Variety, which recently had the actor captive long enough for a cover shoot to promote St. Vincent.
Now, before you go setting your DVR, the Variety story does not address whether the project is being backed by a network, a production company or even has any kind of discernible structure or time-table -- so this could be just the usual development bells jingling at this point. The trade magazine did reach out to Coppola, who confirmed that it was something they were kicking around.
Murray did say that the show would not be live, and that "It won’t have a format, but it’s going to have music. It will have texture. It will have threads through it that are writing. There will be prose.”
Will there be a red, white and green leisure suit? For anyone old enough to remember Nick Winters, lounge singer on Saturday Night Live, there's precedent to believe there may very well be: