(Left) Jennifer Lawrence arrives on the fifteenth Governors Awards within the Ray Dolby Ballroom at Ovation Hollywood on Sunday, November 17, 2024. Credit score/Supplier: Mark Von Holden / The Academy. Copyright: ©A.M.P.A.S. (Middle) Emma Stone on the Oscar Nominee Luncheon held within the Worldwide Ballroom on the Beverly Hilton on Monday, February 12, 2024. The 96th Oscars will air on Sunday, March 10, 2024 stay on ABC.Credit score/Supplier: Mike Baker / ©A.M.P.A.S. Copyright: ©A.M.P.A.S. (Left) Miss Piggy in ‘Muppets Now’. Picture: Disney+.
Preview:
- A solo film for The Muppets’ Miss Piggy is in early growth.
- Jennifer Lawrence and Emma Stone are producing and probably showing.
- Cole Escola will write the script.
Right here’s one thing we’re unsure we –– or, certainly, anybody –– might have predicted. Oscar winners Jennifer Lawrence (‘Pleasure’) and Emma Stone (‘Poor Issues’) are growing a film about diva-tastic Muppet star Miss Piggy.
And sure, we checked: it’s not April 1st.
“It is time to increase the curtain on The Muppet Present!”
Air Date: September fifth, 1976
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Showing on Bowen Yang and Matt Rogers ‘Las Culturistas’ podcast, Lawrence broke the information:
“I don’t know if I can announce this, however I’m simply going to. Emma Stone and I are producing a Miss Piggy film and Cole is writing it.”
Cole, on this case, is Cole Escola, who gained an Emmy for creating Broadway hit ‘Oh, Mary!’ And this growth marks the most recent in one thing of a Muppets resurgence, since a brand new iteration of ‘The Muppet Present’ can also be within the works.
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What’s Miss Piggy’s story?
The Muppets in ‘Muppets Now’. Picture: Disney+.
Whereas she’s lengthy been as one of many best-known central Muppet characters, the spotlight-hogging diva didn’t begin that means.
Beginning as a refrain pig on ‘The Muppet Present,’ Miss Piggy step by step turned a much bigger a part of the sequence, earlier than turning into an icon within the late Nineteen Seventies and early ’80s, usually carried out and voiced by Frank Oz (who additionally performed Yoda within the ‘Star Wars’ galaxy)
Regardless of Kermit being the star, Miss Piggy has lengthy stolen the highlight from her froggy beau, and is understood for her each her fast mood and kung-fu strikes.
Fairly what the brand new film will likely be about stays to be seen –– might we see the story of her meteoric rise?
In accordance with Lawrence, each she and Stone are more likely to seem within the movie.
The place else can we see Jennifer Lawrence and Emma Stone?
Jennifer Lawrence in ‘Die My Love’. Picture Kimberley French/Mubi.
Lawrence will likely be again in theaters starring alongside Robert Pattinson in ‘Die My Love,’ which is launched on November 7. She’s additionally connected to varied initiatives together with thriller thriller ‘The Wives’ and a film concerning the lifetime of novelist and Jazz Age socialite Zelda Fitzgerald throughout her marriage to creator F. Scott Fitzgerald.
As for Stone, she’s in cinemas with ‘Bugonia,’ her newest collaboration with director Yorgos Lanthimos.
When will the Miss Piggy film be in theaters?
All of this, in fact, remains to be floating within the rumor sphere proper now since Muppet rights holders Disney has but to announce something.
1992’s ‘The Muppet Christmas Carol.’ Picture: Walt Disney Photos.