Who
better to be the fleshy fellow among felt friends in The Greatest Muppet Movie Ever Made than Jason Segal? An avowed Muppet
fiend, he has long been attached to the resurrection of the puppet
characters as the screenwriter (along with Nicholas Stoller), and now he
will play what seems to be a version of himself- a man determined to
reunite the Muppets!
How this fits in with our
previous understanding of the story –the Muppets are working to
save their theater by putting on an epic show– is unclear, if that’s
even still the central idea. Everything has been played pretty close to
the chest on this project during its long gestation period. Flight Of The Conchords
maestro James Bobin is till in the director’s chair- one hopes he gets
this going soon. If people are signing on the lines that are dotted
though, then it just might be near initiation.
Expect nerd eyes to keep keep a close
watch on this one.
Source | THR
5 comments
I'd love to see the Muppets return to their glory days, but looking back at most of their movies one can't help but be incredibly… bored. Their takes on Treasure Island and A Christmas Carol were actually good, but all the other films… Uninspired, for the most part not that funny and featuring boring story concepts.
In my opinion the Muppets work best in a TV environment. The Muppet Show was spectacular, Muppets Tonight was really good, why not return to that?
I've never seen a single Muppet movie. How bad of a person does that make me?
Wayne, you only NEED to see one- the original.
Muppets From Space was pretty good, too, but that's partly because the stuff in between The Muppet Movie and it is forgettable.
Even the Great Muppet Caper is forgettable, #3? It's a bit slow at times but it executes the definitive Muppet humor at a rapid rate.
Almost anything with the word "Henson" in it I'll support. Hope to see this, even though the whole "have to put on an epic show to save the theater" idea has kinda run it's course, although technically there is a lot of material they could still do, this being a new generation of audience. Love the fact that they have their own You Tube page, but I would love to see some more quality Muppet Films.
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