Hello, Feyfriends. It's Friday and that, of course, means FAGGY PUPPET NEWS. Well this news isn't that faggy except the Miss Piggy part, but it is great: there's going to be a new Muppet movie, and it might not be quite as busted as the last three or four. Variety reports:
Disney has enlisted scribe-thesp Jason Segel and helmer Nick Stoller to create the next Muppet movie for the studio.
Segel and Stoller will write the script and Stoller will direct.
Segel, who graduated from Apatow-produced skeins "Freaks and Geeks" and "Undeclared" got his first sole writing credit on the Apatow-produced "Forgetting Sarah Marshall." Universal releases the pic, which Stoller directed, on April 18.
In "Sarah Marshall" Segel's character writes a "Dracula" musical performed by puppets. Those cloth creatures were custom-made by the Henson puppeteers, and the experience emboldened Segel to pitch his concept for a Muppets movie when he was invited in for a general meeting with exec Kristin Burr. Segel got a deal in the room and enlisted Stoller to co-write and direct the project.
Of course, no matter how much of an improvement it is, any new Muppet movie will undoubtedly be shitty because Kermit and Janice are dead and Miss Piggy is busy directing LOLfests like this one. I don't know if anyone except me saw the last muppet film, MUPPETS IN SPACE, but if you did, you will remember that the main characters were a puppet shrimp and a puppet Rasta.
(Via FunFriends)
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