Okay, so far we don’t know much about the new Muppet Movie that Jason Segel and Forgetting Sarah Marshall director Nicholas Stoller are developing, but Segel’s promises that it will be a call back to the old school Muppet films has us excited. Soller recently revealed a couple new details to the Defamer.
“It’s gonna be an old school Muppet movie like The Great Muppet Caper or Muppets Take Manhattan. Basically the Muppets have to put on a show to save their studio. And in the intervening years, there’s been a Muppet Diaspora, so the main Muppets need to go off with Jason [Segel] and collect other Muppets from all around the world. We’re in the middle of writing it now. We’re on page 50.”
This is interesting because in interviews Segal had been dodging questions on if he would star in the new movie, but Stoller clearly says otherwise.
April 18th, 2008 at 1:30 pm
It could be like the opening of Star Trek the Motion picture, where they re-assemble the old crew “I need you Bones…Badly!”
April 18th, 2008 at 6:43 pm
this movie is gonna be so gnarly!! im so excited! not only is it the muppets but it also has jason, yay!
April 18th, 2008 at 8:20 pm
just got back from ’sarah marshall’. awesomely funny!!!
if the new muppet movie is 1/10th as good or funny it’ll be just what j. henson ordered; a shot in the fuzzy arm.
April 18th, 2008 at 8:53 pm
Im pretty sure the “diaspora” was the basis of Muppets Take Manhattan. It could be my imagination, but didn’t they do that at the beginning of that movie…having to go around and collect the various Muppets who had taken up various jobs/vocations across america? And why use the word “diaspora”? Isn’t that reserved for the scattering of Jews or religious groups? Although the Muppets may be a religion in and of themselves.
April 19th, 2008 at 9:03 am
Hmmm, this plot seems almost like that of the Blues Brothers…