“Miss Piggy is getting ready for her closeup! A film centered around the iconic Muppet is in early development, a source confirmed with The Hollywood Reporter. Jennifer Lawrence revealed that she and Emma Stone are producing the project during an appearance on the Las Culturistas podcast. “I don’t know if I can announce this, but”, — write: www.hollywoodreporter.com
A film centered around the iconic Muppet is in early development, a source confirmed The Hollywood Reporter. Jennifer Lawrence revealed that she and Emma Stone are producing the project during an appearance on the Las Culturistas podcast.
“I don’t know if I can announce this, but I’m just gonna,” she said in the episode, continuing, “Emma Stone and I are producing a Miss Piggy movie, and Cole [Escola] is writing it.”
Lawrence further clarified that the Oh Mary! star is slated to pen the screenplay for the project.
Later on Wednesday, during an appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy FallonLawrence offered more details about how the idea for the film came to be.
“During lockdown, one of my good friends who’s not in the industry was like — it was also kind of around cancel culture. It was like both things were kind of happening at once. We were all locked up in our rooms and naughty people were being locked up in prison — Miss Piggy is a feminist icon. And she said, ‘You know, it would be so funny if Miss Piggy got canceled,'” she said.
Lawrence clarified, “Now that is not the plot necessarily,” but that their conversation “got the wheels turning of like, wait, there hasn’t actually been a feminist, Miss Piggy-starring movie.”
When the actress-producer was also asked about Las Culturistas if she and Stone would be making an onscreen appearance in the untitled Miss Piggy movie, the Oscar winner responded, “I think so. We have to.”
The character of Miss Piggy made her debut in The Muppet Show in the 1970s, and her star power has continued to grow over the years. The longtime romantic interest of Kermit the Frog, the two have long served as the faces of The Muppets, who all share a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
The Muppets will next be seen in Seth Rogen’s The Muppet Show revival for Disney+, where Sabrina Carpenter serves as a special star and executive producer.
Jim Henson created The Muppets in 1955, and their first TV appearance came in 1969 on Sesame Street. The franchise was purchased by The Walt Disney Company in 2004.
Lawrence has been doing press tied to the Friday premiere of Die My Love. While she did not dish any details on the Miss Piggy project in conversation with THRshe did admit that she’d “never” say never to take part in a film franchise again.
“I love doing franchises because it’s rare in movies that you work with the same group of people for years. That element is great. I don’t want to say I never would — but I have two young kids, so I can’t imagine doing it now,” she explained. “I just need more freedom in my schedule. But not never.”
Carly Thomas contributed to this report.