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Jason Segel Close to Reviving Muppets Franchise
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Jen Carlson
Published Mar 24, 2009
Modified Mar 24, 2009
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Actor and bromanticizer Jason Segel might seem like an unlikely candidate to bring the Muppets back to their glory days, but he's been working hard at doing it for some time now. Paste magazine catches up with the actor about getting his Muppets movie off the ground, and he told them, "The script is done. Disney has it and we’re just waiting to hear how they want to proceed. It’s a big decision for them to relaunch a franchise." If all goes smoothly, he promises to bring the crew back to their Great Muppet Caper roots, explaining, "The Muppets have taken a strange turn with these parody movies like The Muppets Do Dickens and all this stuff...so my pitch to Disney was to reintroduce the Muppets, [make] a movie that is a real throwback to those early movies." Segel has already shared screen time with Henson puppeteer's custom-made creatures during Forgetting Sarah Marshall, and last week he was heckled on Jimmy Fallon by Statler and Waldorf.
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Jen Carlson is a former WNYC and Gothamist editor.
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