Chalk up this one as a project you never saw coming: Bill Murray is putting together a Christmas special in which he’ll sing on television.

Murray is developing the project with his Lost in Translation director Sofia Coppola.

The pair confirmed the news to Variety on Monday.

Despite the news breaking just two months before Christmas, it sounds like the project won’t be on television until next year at the earliest.

Murray will sing, but “it’s not going to be live,” he told 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. It will have a patina style and wit to it. It will be nice.”

Added Coppola, “We’re working on a Christmas special,” she said. “Not sure when it will air, but my motivation is to hear him singing my song requests.”

By the sounds of Variety’s report, the project came up when he was asked about the Bob Dylan song he sings at the end of St. Vincent, his most recent film.

Presuming a network picks up the Bill Murray Christmas special, we expect this televised event to be a big hit.

What songs do you want to hear Bill Murray sing in the Christmas special?

Coppola’s most recent film was last year’s The Bling Ring co-starring Emma Watson. The director will next be working on a live-action adaptation of The Little Mermaid for Universal.