Amy Adams, Rashida Jones And Chris Cooper Will Appear With Jason Segel In ‘The Muppets’
UPDATE:THRhasRashida JonesandChris Cooper(hooray!) joining the cast as well. Mr. Cooper will play the villain.
Not long ago we heard that the rather popularAmy Adamswas looking ata few different possible roles, one of which would be in the upcoming Muppet movie that Disney is assembling withForgetting Sarah Marshallscribe/starJason SegelandGet Him to the Greek/Sarah MarshalldirectorNicholas Stolleras co-writersFlight of the ConchordshelmerJames Bobinas director. Now it looks like Adams will take the role in what is apparently being calledThe Muppets.
EWsays that Amy Adams is in final negotiations for the role, which would see her as " Jason Segel’s girlfriend who joins him on a road trip to Los Angeles to the Muppet Studios." No other real details are in the short report, other than that production is set to begin in November.Previously, from Peter:The Cheapest Mupper Movie Ever Madewas a reference to an old unproduced film idea by Jim Henson which involved Gonzo blowing the movie budget on the opening credits resulting in the remainder of the feature film being shot in the same back lot, clumsily redressed to look like different locations from around the world. The new film won’t likely feature the same storyline, as Segel has said that his story follows the Muppets, who must unite to save the Muppet Theater from an evil oil tycoon. As it turns out, the old theater its on top of some black gold.
The film will be in the tone of the classic Muppet films likeThe Muppet Movie,The Great Muppet Caper, andMuppets Take Manhattan.
Segel will play the lead role, a human named Gary, whose best friend is the puppet bear Walter. Together they go on a journey with Gary’s girlfriend Mary to defeat the evil Tex Richman, a man who doesn’t find the Muppets funny and thinks he can smell oil beneath their studio. There are plenty of celebrity cameos written into the script (includingSean Penn) and Segel apparently got verbal commitments from most of the stars during the writing process.
Last note: way to bore us with the title. Let’s hopeThe Muppetsisn’t final. The two possible titles that were thrown around at one point,The Cheapest Muppet Movie Ever MadeandThe Greatest Muppet Movie Ever Made, might have been unwieldy, but at least they had character.The Muppetsis just reductive and dull.The Muppet Moviemade sense as a title when that film was released, but give us something more playful this time, please.
