\n\tMiss Piggy is getting ready for her closeup!\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n\tA film centered around the iconic Muppet is in early development, a source confirmed with The Hollywood Reporter. Jennifer Lawrence<\/a> revealed that she and Emma Stone<\/a> are producing the project during an appearance on the Las Culturistas<\/a> podcast.\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cI don\u2019t know if I can announce this, but I\u2019m just gonna,\u201d she said in the episode, continuing, \u201cEmma Stone and I are producing a Miss Piggy movie, and Cole [Escola] is writing it.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tLawrence further clarified that the Oh, Mary! star is slated to pen the screenplay for the project.<\/p>\n \n\tLater on Wednesday, during an appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Lawrence offered more details about how the idea for the film came to be.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cDuring lockdown, one of my good friends who\u2019s not in the industry was like \u2014 it was also kind of around cancel culture. It was like both things were kind of happening at once. We were all locked up in our rooms and naughty people were being locked up in prison \u2014 Miss Piggy is a feminist icon. And she said, \u2018You know, it would be so funny if Miss Piggy got canceled,’\u201d she said.<\/p>\n \n\tLawrence clarified, \u201cNow that is not the plot necessarily,\u201d but that their conversation \u201cgot the wheels turning of like, wait, there hasn\u2019t actually been a feminist, Miss Piggy-starring movie.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tWhen the actress-producer was also asked on Las Culturistas if she and Stone would be making an onscreen appearance in the untitled Miss Piggy movie, the Oscar winner responded, \u201cI think so. We have to.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tThe character of Miss Piggy made her debut in The Muppet Show in the 1970s, and her star power has continued to grow over the years. The longtime romantic interest<\/a> of Kermit the Frog, the two have long served as the faces of The Muppets<\/a>, who all share a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tThe Muppets will next be seen in Seth Rogen\u2019s Muppet Show revival<\/a> for Disney+, where Sabrina Carpenter serves as a special star and executive producer.\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tJim Henson created The Muppets in 1955, and their first TV appearance came in 1969 on Sesame Street. The franchise was purchased by The Walt Disney Company in 2004.\u00a0<\/p>\n