The latest effort to put the Muppets back up on the big screen is in fact being written by Nicholas Stoller and Jason Segal and officially has its title!
Formerly the Cheapest Muppet Movie ever made will now be The Greatest Muppet Movie of all Time. Gee, with a title like that you are not setting the bar too high are ya?
And now the synopsis for the film is online thanks to The Film Stage
The Greatest Muppet Movie of All Time is about Gary, Mary, and Walter (a man, his girlfriend, and the man’s life-long nondescript, brown puppet best friend) getting the old Muppet gang — now retired entertainers known for the same Muppet show we know them from — together to save the TV studio that the original show was shot in. A villain, Tex Richman (nice name, on par with Doc Hopper), bent on drilling for oil underneath the studio, is due to take over the studio in weeks and the only way to stop him? Putting on a show that draws ten million viewers.
It is an appropriate angle for the Muppets. Its been some time since we have seen a feature film by this crew, and if this is a hit, it could revive the franchise that has quietly been over run by special effects and bigger production films.
So appropriately the plot is about the Muppets staging a comeback in a film that could be a comeback. I just worry if they do follow up this film, will it be called The Even Greatester Muppet Movie?
I can’t wait to see what they do with it!
