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There’s a Mr. Ed movie likely coming to a theater near you, and there’s nothing you can do about it. Fox 2000 — which is still swimming in Alvin and the Chipmunks money — has acquired feature film rights to the beloved-when-not-watched-in-decades TV show about a talking horse, according to Variety. Let’s try to minimize the damage to our frontal lobes by asking the important question: Who should voice Mr. Ed? Below, a few of our humble suggestions — write your own in the comment boards!
Zach Galifianakis: Think Bill Murray doing Garfield. All great comedians deserve a nice paycheck every now and then, and letting Galifianakis do his free-association-riffing thing could be pretty darned funny. (Three words: Horse. Playing. Piano.)
Werner Herzog: The game-for-anything auteur is already signed on to play the villain in a new Tom Cruise movie. He has also voiced a plastic bag and a character on The Simpsons. And given his natural fascination with all things nature, surely he would find something amusingly profane about voicing a horse who knows more about human affairs than humanity.
Justin Bieber: Mr. Ed sings!
Lea Michele: Mr. Ed sings, and also now he’s Ms. Ed!
JB Smoove: This would be if they decide to take Mr. Ed: The Movie in a slightly more R-rated direction. Smoove has spent a few seasons on Curb Your Enthusiasm giving incredibly NSFW advice to Larry David. Just replace “Larry” with “Wilbur,” and you’ve got a typical episode of Mr. Ed.
PopWatchers, who would you like to hear as the voice of Mr. Ed when your kids drag you to see this movie in a couple years?
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Hell, give the job to Charlie Sheen!
No one, obviously. This movie should not be happening.
But I’ll admit, the idea of Leon coming out of a horse’s mouth is awesome. Maybe the horse has Groat’s disease.
I’m inspired…I’m going to take it one step further and nominate Susie Essman to voice it. (shivers)
any idea why Justin Bieber has to be mentioned? how nauseating….
the original voice of mr ed belonged to a b movie cowboy actor. who for selfcious reasons i wont reveal his identity, [ i win a ton of drinks with this little tidbit ] however the laconic tones of sam elliot seem the only real choice. wwwilbur
Patrick Warburton, of course!
Of course!! Agreed.
James Earl Jones
You mean Depp is not doing this re-make too. His comparing doing a magazine photo shoot and rape sure made him sound like a horse’s a ss
Sarah Silverman–but that would be typecasting….
You mean Sarah Jessica Parker, don’t you?
Yeah, get your equine references straight!
damn beat me to it
JB SMOoVe…guy is so funny haha
Oh geez….a couple of months ago, I saw an old Mr. Ed movie and it was really STUPID. Please…just say no to talking animals!
Ha…i like the Charlie Sheen idea…but how bout Ed Helms?
Real question: Why is Mr. Ed being made into a movie?
Apparently the rights to My Mother The Car weren’t available
(I hope no one in hollywoood reads this comment)
Nobody. Why is Mr. Ed being made into a movie? Can’t someone come up with an original (good) idea instead of all these HORRIBLE remakes?
Harrison Ford. To give the role some gravitas.
Joel McHale or Ed Helms.