--- title: Bill Murray Netflix Christmas Special: Watch the Trailer description: Check out the new trailer, featuring Miley Cyrus, George Clooney, Amy Poehler and more canonical: https://time.com/4073226/bill-murray-christmas-special-netflix/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-10-14T16:34:04.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:46:53.548Z og:title: Bill Murray's Christmas Special Will Be an Absolute Delight og:description: Watch the trailer, featuring Miley Cyrus, George Clooney, Amy Poehler and more og:url: https://time.com/4073226/bill-murray-christmas-special-netflix/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcc69703e83da61f0/6988683dcf40a80aa0c40308/screen-shot-2015-10-14-at-11-41-06-am.png?branch=production&width=875&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 875 og:image:height: 492 og:image:alt: Screen Shot 2015-10-14 at 11.41.06 AM og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Bill Murray's Christmas Special Will Be an Absolute Delight twitter:description: Watch the trailer, featuring Miley Cyrus, George Clooney, Amy Poehler and more twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcc69703e83da61f0/6988683dcf40a80aa0c40308/screen-shot-2015-10-14-at-11-41-06-am.png?branch=production&width=875&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Bill Murray's Christmas Special Looks Like It Will Be an Absolute Delight > Sponsored content. 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The project was directed and co-written by Sofia Coppola and, we now know, stars celebs like George Clooney, Miley Cyrus, Amy Poehler, Maya Rudolph, Rashida Jones, Chris Rock and more. “It just started from wanting to see Bill sing and our fondness for those old Christmas specials that were on TV in the ’70s and ’80s,” Coppola [told ](http://www.people.com/article/bill-murray-very-murray-christmas-trailer-photo)_People._ As you’ll see in the trailer, it looks like this will be a very musical special, but Murray promises that there will be some plot too. “We’re going to do it like a little movie. It won’t have a format, but it’s going to have music,” he[ told](http://variety.com/2014/tv/news/bill-murray-to-sing-christmas-carols-in-upcoming-tv-special-exclusive-1201329020/) _Variety_. “It will have texture. It will have threads through it that are writing. There will be prose.” ### See Photos of Bill Murray's Best Movie Roles  Carl Spackler in Caddyshack, 1980. Orion Pictures  Dr. Peter Venkman in Ghostbusters, 1984. Columbia Pictures  Frank Cross in Scrooged, 1988. Paramount Pictures  Dr. Peter Venkman in Ghostbusters 2, 1989. Columbia Pictures  Phil in Groundhog Day, 1993. Columbia Pictures  Bunny Breckinridge in Ed Wood, 1994. Touchstone Pictures  As himself in Space Jam, 1996. Warner Brothers  Bob Harris in Lost in Translation, 2003. Focus Features  Steve Zissou in The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, 2004. Touchstone Pictures  Don Johnston in Broken Flowers, 2005. Focus Features  Mr. Bishop in Moonrise Kingdom, 2012. Indian Paintbrush  FDR in Hyde Park on Hudson, 2012. Daybreak Pictures  M. Ivan in The Grand Budapest Hotel, 2014. 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