If you’ve ever thought to yourself, Why has there never been a Miss Piggy movie before, have we got news for you. Jennifer Lawrence told Bowen Yang and Matt Rogers on the Las Culturistas podcast that she and Emma Stone are producing a Miss Piggy movie, to be written by Tony winner Cole Escola of Oh, Mary! fame.
“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 said. Obviously, this is deeply important news for women, Hollywood, Muppets, and the LGBTQ+ community, for whom Miss Piggy is a beloved icon.
Without further ado, here is everything we know.
What will the Miss Piggy movie be about?
We don’t know.
Who is in the cast?
Aside from the titular Muppet herself, it will possibly star Lawrence and Stone. When asked by Rogers and Yang if she and her coproducer would appear in the upcoming film, Lawrence replied, “I think so. We have to…it’s fucked up [that we haven’t done a movie together].”
When will the movie premiere?
We don’t know.
Is this going to be a children’s movie?
We don’t know.
Do we know anything?
Unfortunately, not really. Back in July, during an appearance on Amy Poehler’s Good Hang podcast, Escola did mention a meeting with Disney (which owns the Muppets). Asked who would play Mary Todd Lincoln in a film adaptation of Oh, Mary!, Escola suggested that Miss Piggy would be a good choice, with all of the other actors played by humans. Then they added, “Actually cut this because I’m gonna be talking to Disney tomorrow.” At the time, it seemed Escola was just making a joke, but this news makes it seem as if they were perhaps more serious about that Disney meeting than they let on. And that’s about the extent of the knowledge we have at this time.
Luckily, the cat’s out of the bag now, which means we can probably count on more news in the very near future.
This post will be updated.