This is no surprise, he’s been involved with this project from the beginning anyway. I’m talking about actor Jason Segel (Forgetting Sarah Marshall) and THE GREATEST MUPPET MOVIE OF ALL TIME, the new installment that he co-wrote with Nicholas Stoller for Disney. This is Segel’s passion project, he’s been wanting this for a long time. Heat Vision said Segel is set to star as the human lead… Read the rest of this entry »
BAD TEACHER, a comedy starring Cameron Diaz, directed by Jake Kasdan is about a foul-mouthed seventh grade teacher (Diaz) who is dumped by her sugar daddy and starts to pursue a model teacher who’s dating her colleague played by Lucy Punch. Columbia Pictures has been looking for a male lead to play that model teacher and who finally got the role? Cameron’s Ex… Read the rest of this entry »
Ha! The combo of the pictures above is perfect. On the right is John Michael Higgins (Evan Almighty) shocked at the sight of Jason Segel (Forgetting Sarah Marshall). Ha! The following info involves those two funnymen. Hollywood Reporter said Segel and Higgins has signed on to co-star in BAD TEACHER… Read the rest of this entry »
It was once called THE CHEAPEST MUPPET MOVIE EVER MADE, and now, via The Playlist, the official title is THE GREATEST MUPPET MOVIE OF ALL TIME. Written by Jason Segel and Forgetting Sarah Marshall director Nicholas Stoller. FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS co-creator James Bobin will get to direct. And the movie finally got itself a synopsis too, check it out after the jump… Read the rest of this entry »
Real quick now, there’s been a development on the new THE MUPPETS movie written by Jason Segel and Forgetting Sarah Marshall director Nicholas Stoller who was supposed to helm this too but he’s too busy working on GET HIM TO THE GREEK post-production. Vulture earlier today said that FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS co-creator James Bobin received 2 offers including THE MUPPETS for Disney… Read the rest of this entry »
The 2nd trailer for DESPICABLE ME has been released by Universal via Apple, and the difference is with the previous trailer, this one has shows the character Gru voiced by Steve Carell and his mortal competition Vector voiced by Jason Segel. Is it funny? Not so much, more like the old Tom and Jerry or Itchy and Scratchy type of humor where one always gets beat up by the other… Read the rest of this entry »
It takes a year and one summer for us to finally come to this point ever since the announcement that Jason Segel (Forgetting Sarah Marshall) said he wanted to bring THE MUPPETS back to the big screen. He pitched the idea in and Disney loved it and now…at D23Expo, Disney announced the title of the project… THE CHEAPEST MUPPET MOVIE EVER MADE
Written by Jason Segel of course but comingsoon said he might be basing it on an old title that was developed by Jim Henson in 1985 but was never produced, the story would’ve had Gonzo directing a Hollywood film and blowing the budget so the rest of Gonzo’s film had to be shot in same back lot, redressed to look like different locations from around the world. This is completely different than Segel’s previous idea about Muppet characters putting on a show to save an old theater and an evil character who wants to tear the place down to get at the oil underneath. We’ll wait and see for the announcement on which plot they decided to go with for the movie.
Maybe part of the reason why Judd Apatow’s newest comedy, Funny People earned a so-so money at the box office is because Jason Segel is not in the movie. Apatow could’ve put in that Dracula song from Forgetting Sarah Marshall somewhere just for the hell of it, plus the bromance between Sandler and Rogen wasn’t quite as hilarious as the bromance between Rudd and Segel in I Love You Man.
I saw an episode of CSI the other day and Segel made an appearance as one of the geeky forensic scientists, I wonder if the rest of the CSI cast was able to see foresee then that they would get stuck doing television for the rest of their lives but they were in the presence of a future comedy movie star.
According to Hollywood Reporter, Jason Segel has signed on to star alongside his buddies Jonah Hill and Jason Schwartzman in THE ADVENTURER’S HANDBOOK to be directed by Akiva Schaffer.
Hill, Matt Spicer, and Max Winkler sold the script to Universal which bought the screen rights earlier this year. Inspired by the stories in Mick Conefrey’s book The Adventurer’s Handbook: Life Lessons From History’s Great Explorers, the movie is about four childhood friends who are bored with the monotony of their lives and embark on a global adventure. I’m sure the type of humor would be R-rated raunchy as usual, Apatow gang wouldn’t settle for PG-13 comedy.
Segel will play a talented backup piano player and an alcoholic, Hill plays an engineer, isolated from his family, and Schwartzman will play a spoiled three-time Grammy winner.
One of the highlights of the funny comedy Forgetting Sarah Marshall last year was actor Jason Segel singing the song Dracula’s Lament. At the recent screening of his upcoming movie I Love You, Man in Chicago, at the Q&A session, he was asked to sing it again and so he did. Check out the vibrant video above, Paul Rudd helped out with the mics.
You’ve heard it before HERE that Jason Segel (Forgetting Sarah Marshall) has always wanted to do a MUPPETS Movie. He pitched the idea in and Disney liked it. So the question ever since has been: what is it that Jason Segel has in mind for the storyline?
This guy is known for his association with Judd Apatow, meaning the movies have been raunchy comedy with F-bombs and pot jokes, which are funny I admit, but I’d hate to see Kermit and his friends start smoking joints and laughing about who got laid.
But now, CHUD seems to hear bits and pieces about what Segel’s going to do with the some of the most beloved characters of all time.
According to the website, THE MUPPETS will go back to basic.
None of those bullcrap “The Muppets in space” or “go underwater” anymore.
Apparently their Muppet film is going to be incredibly old fashioned, with the familiar Muppet characters putting on a show to save an old theater (the theater from The Muppet Show?). The danger? An evil character wants to tear the place down to get at the oil underneath
That’s a relief. If this is true, then I’m glad THE MUPPETS will be in good hands. Anybody who came up with this idea for the plot deserves a chance.
Questions:
What do you think about the idea for the story?
What would be your suggestion?
