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DISNEY’S “THE MUPPETS … AGAIN!” KICKS OFF PRODUCTION IN LONDON
FILMMAKING TEAM BEHIND 2011’S CELEBRATED FILM “THE MUPPETS” REUNITES FOR ALL-NEW GLOBAL MUPPETS ADVENTURE
Ricky
Gervais, Ty Burrell and Tina Fey Join Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy,
Walter and the Entire Muppets Gang (Plus Celebrity Cameos)
BURBANK, Calif. (January 30, 2013) –
The filmmaking team behind 2011’s celebrated film “The Muppets”
reunites as Disney’s “The Muppets … Again!” kicked off production last
week in London. The all-new global Muppets adventure welcomes Ricky
Gervais, Ty Burrell and Tina Fey to the mayhem, along with Kermit the
Frog, Miss Piggy, Walter and rest of the Muppets. The film is directed
by James Bobin (“Flight of the Conchords,” “Da Ali G Show”), who was
just nominated for a BAFTA for “The Muppets” (Outstanding Debut by a
British Writer, Director or Producer), and produced by the Academy
Award®-nominated team of David Hoberman and Todd Lieberman (“The
Fighter,” “The Proposal”). With a screenplay by Bobin and Nicholas
Stoller (“The Five-Year Engagement”), who is also executive producer
with John Scotti, “The Muppets … Again!” will feature music from Academy
Award®-winning songwriter Bret McKenzie (“Flight of the Conchords”),
who won an Oscar® for best original song for “The Muppets” (“Man or
Muppet”). The new film will hit the big screen March 21, 2014.
“It’s
great to be back working with the Muppets,” said Bobin, “some of them
even remember my name occasionally now. As for the movie, it’s a tip of
the hat to the old-school crime capers of the ’60s, but featuring a
frog, a pig, a bear and a dog—no panthers, even pink ones—along with the
usual Muppet-y mix of mayhem, music and laughs.”
Disney’s
“The Muppets …Again!” takes the entire Muppets gang on a global tour,
selling out grand theaters in some of Europe’s most exciting
destinations, including Berlin, Madrid and London. But mayhem follows
the Muppets overseas, as they find themselves unwittingly entangled in
an international crime caper headed by Constantine—the World’s Number
One Criminal and a dead ringer for Kermit—and his dastardly sidekick
Dominic, aka Number Two, portrayed by Ricky Gervais, creator of “Derek”
and the Golden Globe®- and Emmy®-winning series “The Office” and
“Extras.” The film stars Golden Globe-, Emmy- and SAG Award®-winning
actress and writer Tina Fey (“30 Rock,” “Mean Girls,” “Date Night”) as
Nadya, a feisty prison guard, and Emmy Award winner Ty Burrell (TV’s
“Modern Family”) as Interpol agent Jean Pierre Napoleon.
Said
Kermit the Frog, “This movie takes us places we’ve never been before.
And trust me—this frog has never seen so much international flavor. I
think audiences will eat it up—the entertainment, that is.”
Featuring
a slew of surprising celebrity cameos, Disney’s “The Muppets … Again!”
will shoot on location in London and in Hollywood, as well as in the
famed Pinewood Studios in Iver Heath, Buckinghamshire, just outside of
London.
