(Left) Jennifer Lawrence arrives at the 15th Governors Awards in the Ray Dolby Ballroom at Ovation Hollywood on Sunday, November 17, 2024. Credit/Provider: Mark Von Holden / The Academy. Copyright: ©A.M.P.A.S. (Center) Emma Stone at the Oscar Nominee Luncheon held in the International Ballroom at the Beverly Hilton on Monday, February 12, 2024. The 96th Oscars will air on Sunday, March 10, 2024 live on ABC.Credit/Provider: Mike Baker / ©A.M.P.A.S. Copyright: ©A.M.P.A.S. (Left) Miss Piggy in ‘Muppets Now’. Photo: Disney+.
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- A solo movie for The Muppets’ Miss Piggy is in early development.
- Jennifer Lawrence and Emma Stone are producing and potentially appearing.
- Cole Escola will write the script.
Here’s something we’re not sure we –– or, indeed, anyone –– could have predicted. Oscar winners Jennifer Lawrence (‘Joy’) and Emma Stone (‘Poor Things’) are developing a movie about diva-tastic Muppet star Miss Piggy.
And yes, we checked: it’s not April 1st.
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Appearing on Bowen Yang and Matt Rogers ‘Las Culturistas’ podcast, Lawrence broke the news:
“I don’t know if I can announce this, but I’m just going to. Emma Stone and I are producing a Miss Piggy movie and Cole is writing it.”
Cole, in this case, is Cole Escola, who won an Emmy for creating Broadway hit ‘Oh, Mary!’ And this development marks the latest in something of a Muppets resurgence, since a new iteration of ‘The Muppet Show’ is also in the works.
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What is Miss Piggy’s story?
The Muppets in ‘Muppets Now’. Photo: Disney+.
While she’s long been as one of the best-known central Muppet characters, the spotlight-hogging diva didn’t start that way.
Starting as a chorus pig on ‘The Muppet Show,’ Miss Piggy gradually became a bigger part of the series, before becoming an icon in the late 1970s and early ’80s, often performed and voiced by Frank Oz (who also played Yoda in the ‘Star Wars’ galaxy)
Despite Kermit being the star, Miss Piggy has long stolen the spotlight from her froggy beau, and is known for her both her quick temper and kung-fu moves.
Quite what the new movie will be about remains to be seen –– could we see the story of her meteoric rise?
According to Lawrence, both she and Stone are likely to appear in the film.
Where else can we see Jennifer Lawrence and Emma Stone?
Jennifer Lawrence in ‘Die My Love’. Photo Kimberley French/Mubi.
Lawrence will be back in theaters starring alongside Robert Pattinson in ‘Die My Love,’ which is released on November 7. She’s also attached to various projects including mystery thriller ‘The Wives’ and a movie about the life of novelist and Jazz Age socialite Zelda Fitzgerald during her marriage to author F. Scott Fitzgerald.
As for Stone, she’s in cinemas with ‘Bugonia,’ her latest collaboration with director Yorgos Lanthimos.
When will the Miss Piggy movie be in theaters?
All of this, of course, is still floating in the rumor sphere right now since Muppet rights holders Disney has yet to announce anything.
1992’s ‘The Muppet Christmas Carol.’ Photo: Walt Disney Pictures.
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