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16 September 2009 9:53 AM, PDT | ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news »

Disney Chairman Dick Cook made a big announcement at the Disney D23 Fan Convention and I haven’t been the same since.  Jason Segel (How I Met Your Mother) will provide the script, and word from our friends over at /Film is that The Muppets must reunite to save The Muppet Theater from a greedy oil tycoon who wants it for the reserves discovered in the soil beneath.  The name of this moving picture? The Cheapest Muppet Movie Ever Made. No details yet on when it will go into production, let alone when it’ll be released.

Segel, who wrote (and starred in) Forgetting Sarah Marshall, also appeared in Judd Apatow’s Knocked Up and got his major break starring in Apatow’s 1999 TV series, Freaks And Geeks.  Good luck coming up with zingers for Statler and Waldorf that can match up to the high standard of Muppet hilarity…

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- Scott Miller

22 March 2009 4:05 PM, PDT | WENN | See recent WENN news »

Funnyman Jason Segel is writing a new film starring Jim Henson's muppets - four years after the characters were last seen in theatres.

The Forgetting Sarah Marshall star is a big fan of the bug-eyed puppets, and is convinced he can win over audiences after 2005 film The Muppets' Wizard of Oz flopped.

And he is hoping to revive the theatrical 1980s films starring Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy and Fozzie Bear with a nostalgic movie tribute, after signing a deal with Disney.

Segel says, "I'm trying to bring back the muppets. I'm writing a new muppet movie so hopefully I can bring the muppets back to (be more) like (1984 film) Muppets Take Manhattan."

British-born screenwriter Nicholas Stoller is expected to direct. »

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2 articles from 2009