{"id":358075,"date":"2025-11-05T19:05:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T19:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/358075\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T19:05:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T19:05:12","slug":"miss-piggy-movie-on-way-from-jennifer-lawrence-emma-stone-and-cole-escola-the-muppets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/358075\/","title":{"rendered":"Miss Piggy movie on way from Jennifer Lawrence, Emma Stone and Cole Escola | The Muppets"},"content":{"rendered":"

Miss Piggy is getting the movie star treatment, courtesy of Jennifer Lawrence<\/a> and Emma Stone<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A feature film about the diva puppet is in the works at Disney, which owns the rights to the Muppets franchise, Variety reported<\/a> on Wednesday. Lawrence and Stone will serve as producers, working with a script from Oh, Mary! creator Cole Escola.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know if I can announce this but I am just going to \u2026 Emma Stone<\/a> and I are producing a Miss Piggy movie and Cole is writing it,\u201d Lawrence revealed on Las Culturistas podcast hosted by Bowen Yang and Matt Rogers. When the excited cohosts asked whether Lawrence and Stone, longtime friends and two of the most successful film actors of their generation, would co-star in the project, Lawrence teased: \u201cI think so. We have to \u2026 It\u2019s fucked up [that we haven\u2019t done a movie together].\u201d<\/p>\n

Lawrence also revealed that she considered making her Broadway debut in Oh, Mary!<\/a>, Escola\u2019s historical farce that has seen a range of actors from Jane Krakowski and Tituss Burgess fill the role of Mary Todd Lincoln. The intensely physical comedy, for which Escola won the Tony for best actor in a play, reimagines the former first lady as a historically clueless, alcoholic, aspiring cabaret singer who benefits greatly from her husband\u2019s assassination.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe whole thing is a joke she\u2019s in on,\u201d Lawrence told the podcast. \u201cI felt like I could be big and in on the joke.\u201d She decided not to pursue the role, she said, after considering the physical rigor of Broadway\u2019s punishing eight-shows-a-week schedule.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think I would be good at [theater] \u2026 It\u2019s all your body and voice,\u201d she said. \u201cThe only time I wanted to do theater was I wanted to do Oh, Mary! They were like, \u2018It\u2019s eight shows a week and six weeks of rehearsal.\u2019 I was like, \u2018Do you have daycare there?\u2019 It just wouldn\u2019t have worked.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lawrence is currently promoting Die, My Love<\/a>, a psychological thriller of a crumbling marriage in which she stars opposite Robert Pattinson. Stone\u2019s latest film, Bugonia<\/a>, a dark conspiracy theory comedy that marks her fifth collaboration with director Yorgos Lanthimos, premiered last month; she won her second best actress Oscar, in 2024, for her role in Lanthimos\u2019s Poor Things.<\/p>\n

The Miss Piggy feature film, should it materialize, will be the character\u2019s first solo outing since Jim Henson debuted her in 1976. The prima donna started as a chorus pig on Henson\u2019s The Muppet Show before gradually becoming a bigger part of the series, and stealing the spotlight from her froggy beau Kermit.<\/p>\n

As the Muppets characters celebrate their 70th year, Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg announced last month that they would refresh The Muppet Show for its 50th anniversary. A Disney+ special, featuring guest star Sabrina Carpenter, will air in 2026, with an expected new series to follow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Miss Piggy is getting the movie star treatment, courtesy of Jennifer Lawrence and Emma Stone. A feature film…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":358076,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[171,53,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-358075","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-movies","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115498655761083584","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358075\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/358076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}