Disney to make new Muppets movie
Disney has enlisted Jason Segel of 'How I Met Your Mother' fame and Nick Stoller to create the next Muppet movie for the studio.
Segel and Stoller will write the script and Stoller will direct.
Segel, who graduated from Apatow-produced skeins "Freaks and Geeks", "Undeclared" and "Forgetting Sarah Marshall" pitched 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 Stoller to co-write and direct the project.
His simple story about the gang putting on a show to save the studio will utilize the classic characters and fully developed human characters.
"It's like the early '80s Muppets movies," said Segel. "Bringing it back to the Muppets putting on a show and working together, there's such a sense of hope that comes from the old Muppet movies. I just remember watching and thinking I could do anything. I feel like the luckiest guy in the world to be writing a Muppet movie. Maybe it's a particularity for me, but Kermit is the man. Kermit's the original Jimmy Stewart, the original Tom Hanks. He's like the everyman when you're 10 years old."