Segel and Stoller take on Muppets

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  I used to love the Muppets movies when I was a kid. Then they got unfunny and boring. But a Knocked Up Miss Piggy or 40-year-old Virgin Kermit could be interesting again.

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Segel and Stoller Bring Back The Muppets
Published 3/13/2008 at FilmWad
Written by David Morgan Two of Judd Apatow's young proteges, Jason Segel (Knocked Up, writer-star of Forgetting Sarah Marshall) and Nick Stoller (director of Sarah Marshall), have been hired by Disney to create the next Muppet movie. The duo will write the screenplay together and Stoller will direct. According to Variety, this idea came about during the filming of Sarah Marshall. In that film (out April 18th), Segel's character "writes a "Dracula" musical performed by puppets. Those cloth creatures were custom-made by the Henson puppeteers, and the experience emboldened Segel to ...

Forgetting a New Muppets Movie
Published 3/13/2008 by orfilms@gmail.com (slashfilm.com) at /Film
... Kristin Burr. The early Muppet films were absolutely genius, but the last few failed due to an attempt to dumb down the plot/jokes to appeal to young viewers. I’m sure Segel and Stoller understand what direction to take the franchise, it’s just a question of if Henson/Disney will allow them the chance to actually make it happen. Discuss: Could Segel and Stoller create another great Muppet movie, or is the Muppet franchise dead? source: Variety ...

Judd Apatow's Comedy Complex Exhausts Funny Human Ideas, Extends Reach to Muppets
Published 3/13/2008 at Vulture -- Entertainment, Music, Culture, Theater, Movies, Art -- New York Magazine Blog
... Apatow Proteges Conquer Muppets: Jason Segel and Nick Stoller will write the next Muppets movie for Disney. Apparently, Segel's character in the upcoming Apatow-produced Forgetting Sarah Marshall writes an all-puppet musical, which (seriously) was enough for Disney to dust off Kermit the Frog, who is "very excited to be working again." Added an excited Swedish Chef, "Bork bork bork!" [Variety] ...

Jason Segel and Nick Stoller To Helm New Muppet Movie!
Published 3/13/2008 by Elisabeth Rappe at Cinematical
Filed under: Classics, Comedy, Deals, Disney, Fandom, Family FilmsForget Sarah Marshall, hello Miss Piggy! According to Variety, Jason Segel and Nick Stoller, the writer-director duo behind the upcoming Forgetting Sarah Marshall, have just inked a deal with Disney to create a new Muppet film. They'll collaborate on the script, and Stoller will direct. Apparently, this partnership with Disney came about entirely due to Marshall. In the film, Segel's character writes a Dracula musical performed by puppets. The puppets were custom made by ...

FORGETTING MISS PIGGY?? A New Muppet Movie From FORGETTING SARAH MARSHALL Folk Is On The Way!!
Published 3/13/2008 by Merrick at Ain't It Cool News - The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic book news.
Merrick here... There's a new Muppet movie on the way, from an unlikely duo. Actor Jason Segel (CSI, FREAKS & GEEKS, and FORGETTING SARAH MARSHALL - which he also wrote) will script the new project alongside Nick Stoller (director of FORGETTING SARAH MARSHALL). Stoller will also direct the new Muppet venture. In "Sarah Marshall" Segel's character writes a "Dracula" musical performed by puppets. Those cloth creatures were custom-made by the Henson puppeteers, and the experience emboldened Segel to pitch his concept for a Muppets movie when he was invited in for a general meeting with exec Kristin Burr. Segel got a deal in the room and enlisted ...

The Muppets Take Segel & Stoller
Published 3/13/2008 by Kirsten Anderson at At The Movies - Film News and Reviews
  In a world gone mad, the Muppets will return to save us. Forgetting Sarah Marshall writer-star Jason Segel and director Nick Stoller have been booked by Disney to make a new Muppet Movie. They’ll collaborate on the script and Stoller will direct. According to Variety, the idea came from a scene in Sarah Marshall where Segel’s character makes a puppet Dracula movie. The puppets were made by Henson puppeteers, and the contact with them got Segel in to pitch his idea for a Muppet movie to Disney exec Kristen Burr. The deal was done and off we go…well, not ...

DAILY ROUNDUP: BRAD BIRD, PENIS JOKES, ETC.
Published 3/13/2008 at FilmDrunk.com
Knock Knock.  Who's there?  Some links, bitch!  Brad Bird Directing Live Action Debut, 1906 The other day I misidentified him as the director of Finding Nemo and Wall E (my bad, that's Andrew Stanton).  However, I stand by my point about his enormous forehead. Remake of Fame Gets a Director High School Musical, Hairspray, and now this.  Kill your children while there's still time.  Or at least break their fingers to keep them from developing "jazz hands".  ...

The thing that made me like you: Jason Segel edition
Published 3/13/2008 by Mandi Bierly at Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
... I've enjoyed Jason Segel on Freaks and Geeks and How I Met Your Mother, but it wasn't until this morning, when I read in Variety that he's co-writing a new Muppet movie, that I "liked him." That's just cool. The kind of cool that's even cooler because it's kinda not cool. If you know what I mean. ...

New Muppets Movie in the Works!
Published 3/13/2008 by Cole Abaius at Film School Rejects
It’s time to start the music! The Muppets will be returning to the big screen if all goes according to plan for Jason Segel and Nick Stoller. Stoller just finished directing Segel in Forgetting Sarah Marshall in which Segel’s character Peter writes a musical about Dracula using puppets that were specially designed by the Henson crew. According to Variety, the “experience emboldened Segel to pitch his concept for a Muppets movie.” That meeting paid off as he sold the deal to Walt Disney VP Kristin Burr in the room with plans for Stoller to direct and Segel to write. The ...

The Dailies: March 13, 2008
Published 3/13/2008 by Shawn Adler at MTV Movies Blog
- It’s time to play the music, it’s time to light the lights, Jason Segal and Nick Stoller to write a new Muppet Movie tonight! (Variety) - I want some of whatever the Wachowskis are smoking: Final trailer for “Speed Racer” released. (Yahoo) - Carter, Duchovny give a wrap-up press conference at end of filming for “X-Files 2.” (National Post) - Director Louis Leterrier smashes his way through the “Hulk” trailer. (Empire) - From the humans who brought you “Finding Nemo,” the final “Wall-E” trailer arrives. (Apple) Share This

'Forgetting Sarah Marshall' Guys Now Penning 'Forgetting Nurse Janice' For Henson Co. [Trade Roundup]
Published 3/13/2008 by Seth at Defamer
... Musical sequence in Forgetting Sarah Marshall so impressed the Jim Henson Co., who produced the puppets, that they've hired Jason Segel and Nick Stoller to write and direct the next Muppet movie. They're hoping the whole Apatowian raunch-with-heart formula will lend itself nicely to a story about Miss Piggy's accidental knocking-up by Kermit's unambitious stoner character, which will result in a mutant frig baby that both will love despite its freakishly beflippered snout. [Variety] ...

Apatow's Cohorts Making Muppet Movie
Published 3/13/2008 at I Watch Stuff - The Best Movie News Ever
... out my hope for improved Muppetry may be become a reality, with news that Forgetting Sarah Marshall writer/star Jason Segel and director Nick Stoller have signed on to make a new film with the popular felt cast. And judging by the quality of the trailers for the duo's upcoming comedy, I'd say Segel and Stoller's Muppet film have a good chance at revitalizing the franchise. Or at least make something as good as this Candice Bergen Muppet Show I'm trying to push through. 'Marshall' duo to write, direct film for Disney [Variety]

Jason Segel to Make Muppet Movie
Published 3/13/2008 by BuzzSugar at BuzzSugar -- Entertainment hourly.
This is some of the most endearing movie news I've heard in a long time: Jason Segel, (star of Freaks and Geeks, How I Met Your Mother and the upcoming comedy Forgetting Sarah Marshall) will collaborate with director Nick Stoller on a new Muppets movie. Here's the cute part, though: He got the idea from his Forgetting Sarah Marshall character. Variety has more: In Sarah Marshall Segel's character writes a Dracula musical performed by puppets. Those cloth creatures were custom-made by the Henson puppeteers, and the experience emboldened Segel to pitch his ...

Forgetting Sarah Marshall Team To Do Next Muppets Movie
Published 3/13/2008 by john@themovieblog.com (John Campea) at The Movie Blog
Doug got a chance to see Forgetting Sarah Marshall here at the SXSW film festival the other day and he just loved it (you can check out his review here). That project was written by the star of the film Jason Segel and was directed by Nick Stoller. Well, it appears Disney thinks these are the guys to pen and direct the next Muppets movie! Variety Magazine gives us this: In “Sarah Marshall” Segel’s character writes a “Dracula” musical performed by puppets. Those cloth creatures were custom-made by the Henson puppeteers, and the experience emboldened Segel to pitch his ...

How I Met Your Piggy
Published 3/14/2008 by Kirby at Movie Dearest
Jason Segel, co-star of the sitcom How I Met Your Mother and the upcoming movie Forgetting Sarah Marshall (directed by Nick Stoller), has been signed by Disney to pen the next Muppet movie, with Stoller directing. It will be great to see Kermit, Miss Piggy and company back on the big screen again, especially considering that their last two movies -- It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie and The Muppets Wizard of Oz -- were television productions ... and god awful. Hopefully Segal and Stoller will be able to recapture the magic of the ...

New Muppet Movie and Wallace and Gromit Details
Published 3/18/2008 by Christopher at SpoutBlog
Last week, while I was still exhausted from my first real SXSW experience, news broke out that actor/writer Jason Segel (of TV’s Freaks and Geeks and How I Met Your Mother and the upcoming movie Forgetting Sarah Marshall ) is planning a new Muppet movie. Though the announcement likely figured into my subsequent quick recovery, I wasn’t in good enough health to write about it at the time. Fortunately, now there’s more details, courtesy of MTV Movies Blog , and I’m even more giddy than before. As I figured, Segel is looking to the original Muppet flicks, specifically The Muppet Movie , The Great Muppet ...

Jason Segel’s to pen new Muppets Movie
Published 3/26/2008 by Hot Momma at Hot Momma Celebrity Gossip Blog
For a guy growing up wanting to be Kermit The Frog, writing the new Muppets movie is a dream come true. So it goes for the actor/writer Jason Segel who literally begged Disney bosses to let him pen the new film. And when they initially turned him down he wowed them with his knowledge of the lovable puppet stars. Segal is a veteran of Apatow productions such as Freaks and Geeks, Undeclared, Knocked Up, and he also scripted Forgetting Sarah Marshall. The Knocked Up funny man says, “I’ve had a fascination with puppets my entire life. I remember thinking that Kermit The Frog was Tom Hanks. He was the ...

Exclusive: 'Forgetting Sarah Marshall' Director Gives Us The Most Penis-tastic Interview Ever [Interviews]
Published 4/18/2008 by Nick Malis at Defamer
... is having a very good year. After being taken under the mighty wing of Judd Apatow, his hilarious-yet-touching directorial debut, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, opens today. Not only that, he and star Jason Segel are currently making the new Muppet movie. Clearly, it's time to learn a little more about this guy before he becomes too much of a big shot. Since they're old friends, we asked our frequent guest-blogger Nick Malis (who contractually required us to plug ...