Amy Adams, Chris Cooper and Rashida Jones are in negotiations to join the Jason Segel and Nicholas Stoller scribed Muppet movie which is still without a title.
The project, which is gearing up for a November shoot, is one of a few options Adams was eyeing before signing on. The film is a big one for Disney, as it’s a return to a franchise that hasn’t been on the big screen in quite a few years. Over the summe, a table read for the film was held at Pixar with filmmakers John Lasseter, Brad Bird, Pete Docter, Andrew Stanton, Michael Arndt, Bob Peterson and president Ed Catmull, all on hand to lend their input and make sure everything was right.
From what is being revealed of the parts the actors are attached to, it looks like the show biz world setting that we gleaned in an early script review remain’s intact. The film will find the Muppets reuniting to put a show to save the studio. Jones will play an ABC executive, Adams will play the girlfriend of Segel’s character, helping him reunite the Muppets for the show while Cooper has the meatiest role as the villain (sweet) “who wants to buys the studio to dig for the oil hiding underneath it and who never thought the Muppets were funny to begin with.”
James Bobin (“Flight Of The Conchords”) will direct the film that is aiming to hit theaters on December 25, 2011.
