The demanding Muppet is set to get her own movie at Disney with Oscar-winning actors producing and the Tony-winning multi-hyphenate writing
Miss Piggy is getting the movie star treatment, courtesy of Jennifer Lawrence and Emma Stone.
A feature film about the diva puppet is in the works at Disney, which owns the rights to the Muppets franchise, Variety reported on Wednesday. Lawrence and Stone will serve as producers, working with a script from Oh, Mary! creator Cole Escola.
“I don’t know if I can announce this but I am just going to … Emma Stone and I are producing a Miss Piggy movie and Cole is writing it,” 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: “I think so. We have to … It’s fucked up [that we haven’t done a movie together].”
Lawrence also revealed that she considered making her Broadway debut in Oh, Mary!, Escola’s 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’s assassination.
