Cole Escola Is Making a Miss Piggy Movie and Bringing Along a Few of His Oscar-winning Friends

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There’s so much discourse surrounding what it means to be iconic these days—and who is really worthy of being described as such. We would firmly file Muppet diva-extraordinaire Miss Piggy as someone deserving of the title.

Thanks to Miss Piggy’s everlasting fabulosity, it’s been announced that Tony Award-winning actor and playwright Cole Escola is working on a new movie about pop culture’s most stylish swine—and he’s bringing along a few friends (and Oscar winners) to assist on the project. Currently, Jennifer Lawrence and Emma Stone are attached to executive produce the upcoming feature, with Lawrence being the one who broke the news during her appearance on Bowen Yang and Matt Rogers popular Las Culturistas podcast.

“I don’t know if I can announce this, but I’m just going to,” the actress shared during the new episode, per Deadline. “Emma Stone and I are producing a Miss Piggy movie and Cole is writing it.” While Lawrence didn’t reveal any plot details, she did confirm it would be likely she and Stone would make cameos for the film. “I think so,” she added. “We have to.”

Miss Piggy of course is no stranger to the silver screen and has appeared in dozens of movies, television specials, and commercials alongside her beloved Muppet costars (and on-and-off boyfriend, Kermit the Frog) for decades now. Cole Escola, who recently won a Tony Award for their portrayal of Mary Todd Lincoln in their smash-hit play Oh, Mary! recently reflected on what it’s been like receiving seeming overnight success thanks to his unconventional—but indisputably hilarious—production.

“I’m just waiting for the day when it’s like, okay, no one likes it anymore,” Escola told Bazaar of the reaction to Oh, Mary!. “Obviously that happens with everything, so that will happen, but I really have no idea. I’ve been doing basically the same kind of work for a long time, and I don’t know why this one in particular is the one that people are responding to. It feels a bit like a broken clock is right twice a day, and for some reason, this play and the culture are on the same time.”

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