Bill Murray, whose lounge singer character Nick Ansara (aka Nick Thinblood aka Nick Rails aka Nick Summers aka Nick Springs) repeatedly serenaded millions on “Saturday Night Live” in the 1970s, wants to reunite with his “Lost in Translation” writer-director Sofia Coppola to mount a TV special full of him singing classic Christmas carols.
“It’s not going to be live,” Murray tells Variety. “We’re going to do it like a little movie. 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.”
Coppola confirmed she is involved with the project, which apparently has not yet involved any particular channel.
Find all of Variety’s exclusive on the matter here.
