NXT Jennifer Lawrence, Emma Stone Developing ‘Miss Piggy’ Movie With ‘Oh, Mary’ Tony-Winner Cole Escola
Jennifer Lawrence, Emma Stone and Cole Escola are joining forces to give Miss Piggy the movie-star treatment.
A film about the temperamental diva puppet is in early development at Disney, which owns the rights to the Muppets, according to knowledgable sources. The iconic character, created in the ’70s by Bonnie Erickson and Frank Oz, has never been the subject of a feature film. Lawrence and Stone will serve as producers with Escola, a Tony winner for their hit Broadway play “Oh, Mary!,” set to write the screenplay.
“I don’t know if I can announce this but I am just going to … Emma Stone and I are producing a Miss Piggy movie and Cole is writing it,” Lawrence revealed on the podcast “Las Culturistas,” hosted by Bowen Yang and Matt Rogers. After the co-hosts shrieked with excitement and asked whether long-time friends Stone and Lawrence would co-star in the film, Lawrence teased, “I think so. We have to… It’s fucked up [that we haven’t done a movie together].”
Lawrence also shared that she considered taking her talents to Broadway for “Oh, Mary!” and wanted to play the title character of Mary Todd Lincoln. The gonzo comedy is set in the days before Lincoln’s assassination and imagines the former first lady as a alcoholic wannabe cabaret star. (“The whole thing is a joke she’s in on,” Lawrence said. “I felt like I could be big and in on the joke.”) However, she changed her mind after she considered the punishing eight-shows-a-week grind of the Great White Way.
“I don’t think I would be good at [theater]… it’s all your body and voice,” said Lawrence, who is currently promoting her new film “”Die My Love,” a psychological drama with Robert Pattinson. “The only time I wanted to do theater was I wanted to do ‘Oh, Mary!’ They were like, ‘It’s eight shows a week and six weeks of rehearsal.’ I was like, ‘Do you have daycare there?’ It just wouldn’t have worked.”
