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Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg may be getting ready to play the music and light the lights on a 50th anniversary The Muppet Show special with Sabrina Carpenter next year, but that's not the only sensational — and indeed Muppetational – puppet-based project in the works at Disney right now. As Variety is reporting, a powerhouse trio of Emma Stone, Jennifer Lawrence, and Tony award-winning Oh, Mary! writer Cole Escola are assembling to tackle a fully fledged Miss Piggy movie over at the House of Mouse.
Speaking on Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang's Las Culturistas podcast this week ahead of the release of Lynne Ramsey's Die My Love, Oscar winner Lawrence — who also revealed on the pod that she'd hoped at one point to star in Escola's Mary Todd Lincoln show Oh, Mary! on Broadway — let slip her Piggy plans, much to Rogers and Yang's amazement. "“Emma Stone and I are producing a Miss Piggy movie and Cole is writing it,” shared Lawrence, before confirming plans for she and Stone to star in the film. "I think we have to," said the star, noting how "fucked up" it is that the pair, despite having been friends for years, have never actually worked together on a project before.
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The prospect of Lawrence and Stone — the latter of whom's knockout run of Yorgos Lanthimos collaborations has just this past week given us conspiracy satire Bugonia — finally working together after years of unfounded rumours about potential collaborations is incredibly exciting. So too is the notion of Cole Escola — whose Oh, Mary! has been lauded for its mercurial blend of raucous, riotous camp with genuinely emotionally precise and perceptive storytelling — turning their hand to the Muppets' chaotic diva extraordinaire, last seen on the big screen in 2014's Muppets Most Wanted. We'll bring you more on this one as we get it, but in the meantime, you can absolutely bet we'll be HIIII-YAH'ing our way to the front of the line whenever Piggy: A Muppet Movie (title entirely our own) arrives in cinemas.