A movie centered across the iconic Muppet is in early improvement, a supply confirmed with The Hollywood Reporter. Jennifer Lawrence revealed that she and Emma Stone are producing the undertaking throughout an look on the Las Culturistas podcast.
“I don’t know if I can announce this, however I’m simply gonna,” she stated within the episode, persevering with, “Emma Stone and I are producing a Miss Piggy film, and Cole [Escola] is writing it.”
Lawrence additional clarified that the Oh, Mary! star is slated to pen the screenplay for the undertaking. She didn’t reveal any additional particulars concerning the movie.
When requested if she and Stone could be making an onscreen look within the untitled Miss Piggy film, the Oscar winner responded, “I feel so. We’ve got to.”
The character of Miss Piggy made her debut in The Muppet Present within the Seventies, and her star energy has continued to develop over time. The longtime romantic curiosity of Kermit the Frog, the 2 have lengthy served because the faces of The Muppets, who all share a star on the Hollywood Stroll of Fame.
The Muppets will subsequent be seen in Seth Rogen’s Muppet Present revival for Disney+, the place Sabrina Carpenter serves as a particular star and govt producer.
Jim Henson created The Muppets in 1955, and their first TV look got here in 1969 on Sesame Road. The franchise was bought by The Walt Disney Firm in 2004.
Lawrence has been doing press tied to the Friday premiere of Die My Love. Whereas she didn’t dish any particulars on the Miss Piggy undertaking in dialog with THR, she did admit that she’d “by no means” say by no means to participating in a movie franchise once more.
“I really like doing franchises as a result of it’s uncommon in motion pictures that you simply work with the identical group of individuals for years. That factor is nice. I don’t need to say I by no means would — however I’ve two younger youngsters, so I can’t think about doing it now,” she defined. “I simply want extra freedom in my schedule. However not by no means.”