A New ‘Lady Gaga’ Influenced Muppet Movie

In a seriously brilliant fusion of two of Hollywood’s most powerful starlets, it looks like Miss Piggy is going to get a little inspiration from none other than the always-interesting Lady Gaga in a new ‘Muppets’ film currently in the works. According to The Hollywood Life, Miss Piggy “ends up becoming like a Lady Gaga-esque character living in Europe” in the new Jason Segal-penned film.

The writers of the film, tentatively titled ‘The Greatest Muppet Movie Ever Made’, are still figuring out the direction of each character, but one thing is for sure–this will likely be different from other Muppet movies. ‘Forgetting Sarah Marshall’ scribes Segal (‘How I Met Your Mother,’ ‘I Love You, Man’) and Nicholas Stoller will likely bring their fresh (and twisted) senses of humor to the kid-friendly feature, but still maintain the feel-good vibe we’ve all come to love.

“The film finds a human couple and their muppet friend racing to get the old gang–all now retired entertainers–together for one last hurrah in order to save their old TV studio from an oil giant who wants to destroy it,” The Hollywood Life reports.

Add to that the news that Kermit has become “destitute”–”the main characters find him living in squalor”–and I think you’ll agree you have the potential for tears and social commentary amid the laughter. Perhaps most intriguing, though, is the fate of Miss Piggy, who these days is apparently “a Lady Gaga-esque character living in Europe.”

Whether Piggy will reprise Gaga’s famous Kermit costume has yet to be revealed. The important thing is that Kermit-the-real-life-Muppet, as opposed to Kermit-the-character-in-the-Muppet-movies, was fine with that particular outfit choice by her Ladyship, and subsequently even escorted Gaga to an awards ceremony. Back then, People magazine asked him whether he wasn’t “creeped out by a woman who’d just been photographed wearing a dress made out of, well, him (or close relatives)”. Kermit’s reply? “I was just happy it wasn’t made out of anyone I recognised.”

Well quite–it all looked desperately unlike unofficial merchandise. Still, if our fun-fur vaudevillians are looking to get their own back, couldn’t Miss Piggy enliven the movie by wearing a costume made out of hundreds of mini Gagas–or would that be a referential warp too far for the young audience to get their heads around?