Bill Murray Supposedly Teaming Up with Sofia Coppola for Weirdest, Best Christmas Special Ever

As a rule of thumb, it's generally not even worth writing a post about something if you have to begin with a warning that the story may be complete bullshit. And that is certainly the case here. This story may be complete bullshit. However, this story is also about Bill Murray. So even though it may be bullshit, I am morally obligated to relay it to you.

So are you ready? Okay, here we go. Bill Murray is teaming up with director Sofia Coppola to make a TV Christmas special.

That's right. Bill. Murray. Christmas. Special. Just let those four words sink into your brain.

Both Murray and Coppola have confirmed the news with Variety. But that doesn't mean it's true, or that, if that the special will air on television if it is made. Just read Murray's description of the show and try to imagine him telling it to some executive at ABC:

It's not going to be live. 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. It will have a patina style and wit to it. It will be nice.

Don't get me wrong, a Bill Murray Christmas special sounds fantastic to me. I think—and I know I'm not alone here—that Bill Murray is the most entertaining man alive. But would you really be that surprise if it turned out the guy was just f**king with us?

There is no word yet about when or where this would air. I guess we'll all have to wait and see.