Miss Piggy is returning to the spotlight.<\/p>\n
A movie about the Muppets character, written by \u201cOh, Mary!\u201d creator Cole Escola and produced by Jennifer Lawrence and Emma Stone, is in early development at Disney, TheWrap has learned.<\/p>\n
Lawrence revealed the existence of the project on Bowen Yang and Matt Rogers\u2019 \u201cLas Culturistas\u201d podcast on Wednesday, saying, \u201cI don\u2019t know if I can announce this, but I\u2019m just going to \u2013 Emma Stone and I are producing a Miss Piggy movie and Cole is writing it.\u201d<\/p>\n
She also said that she and Stone would probably make an appearance in the film, telling the hosts, \u201cI think so, we have to.\u201d<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n Miss Piggy initially started as a background player on \u201cThe Muppet Show\u201d but grew into one of the most popular characters on the series, known for her egocentric behavior, karate chops and on-again\/off-again love affair with Kermit (the 1984 film \u201cThe Muppets Take Manhattan\u201d ends with Miss Piggy and Kermit\u2019s star-studded wedding). On May 10, 1990, the Jim Henson Company issued a press release that Kermit and Piggy had broken up, with plans for a tell-all autobiography and other events to follow, but Jim Henson\u2019s death, just days later, put the kibosh on those plans. More recently in the 2015 faux documentary series \u201cThe Muppets,\u201d the rocky status of their relationship was explored.<\/p>\n Frank Oz co-created the character and performed as Miss Piggy from 1976 to 2002, after which Eric Jacobson took over.<\/p>\n In 1979, Oz explained her genesis to the New York Times<\/a>: \u201cI remember that Miss Piggy used to be, in the very first year of the show, just a nondescript pig puppet that we had originally used prior to \u2018The Muppet Show,\u2019 in a halfhour pilot called \u2018sex and Violence\u2019 \u2026 There was a bit in that pilot with a whole bunch of pigs and she was just one of the pigs. But in one rehearsal, I was working as Miss Piggy with Jim, who was doing Kermit, and the script called for her to slap him. Instead of a slap, I gave him a funny karate hit. Somehow, that hit crystallized her character for me \u2014 the coyness hiding the aggression; the conflict of that love with her desire for a career; her hunger for a glamour image; her tremendous out\u2010and\u2010out ego \u2014 all those things are great fun to do.\u201d<\/p>\n Oz said the character has had a \u201csad, difficult life,\u201d and outlined her upbringing in a document that read, in part, that \u201cshe grew up in a small town; her father died when she was young; her mother wasn\u2019t that nice to her. She had to enter beauty contests to survive. She has a lot of aggressiveness, but she needs a lot to survive \u2014 as many single women do. She has a lot of vulnerability, which she has to hide, because of her need to be a superstar.\u201d<\/p>\n The post Miss Piggy Movie in the Works With Emma Stone and Jennifer Lawrence Producing, Cole Escola Writing<\/a> appeared first on TheWrap<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source ca.news.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Miss Piggy is returning to the spotlight. A movie about the Muppets character, written by \u201cOh, Mary!\u201d creator Cole Escola and produced by Jennifer Lawrence and Emma Stone, is in early development at Disney, TheWrap has learned. 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