Jennifer Lawrence, Emma Stone to produce Miss Piggy movie at Disney

Jennifer Lawrence said on a recent episode of the Las Culturistas podcast that she and Emma Stone are producing a feature film centered on Miss Piggy, with Tony Award winner Cole Escola writing the screenplay. Lawrence said the project is in early development at Disney, which owns the rights to the Muppets, and that she and Stone are likely to appear in the film. She offered no plot details or production schedule.

"I don't know if I can announce this, but I am just going to," Lawrence said on the podcast. "Emma Stone and I are producing a Miss Piggy movie and Cole is writing it." When asked whether she and Stone would have acting roles, she added, "I think so. We have to." Escola won a Tony for the Broadway play Oh, Mary! and is credited by Lawrence as the writer attached to the project.

Miss Piggy first appeared in a 1974 television special and rose to prominence as a regular on The Muppet Show beginning in 1976. The character has been a central and high-profile member of the Muppet ensemble for decades, known for a flamboyant persona and frequent comic interplay with Kermit the Frog. A Miss Piggy feature would be the character's first solo film and the first Muppet theatrical...