The Muppets Are Hitting Back, However Not Scriptwriter Jason Segel0

Written by Parveen Maghera

The Muppets are hit­ting back to the big screens as direc­tor James Bobin and orig­i­nal co-writer, Nicholas Stoller came to an agree­ment of a new sequel to this comedy-drama film. No addi­tional details on the plot were given but Bobin will most likely direct this sequel.

However, star of The Muppets and How I Met Your Mother, Jason Segel, will not col­lab­o­rate with the script this time as he claims to have other com­mit­ments at hand, which includes his April-due pro­mo­tional work Five Year Engagement and Judd Apatow’s This Is Forty which is due in December.

It is indeed a waste not to have Segel’s involve­ment in the script, as Stoller and him were greatly pas­sion­ate for this film to grow. They pitched their idea for a Muppets sequel back in December 2008. Well, Segel is indeed ‘a mup­pet of a man’ but nev­er­the­less, we should have faith in the exist­ing writ­ers or so does Segel.

Apparently, despite Segel’s heavy sched­ule, there may be a chance of him return­ing as the star of the sequel but it all depends on Stoller and Bobin’s script.

For now, let us wait for more news to come, but most impor­tantly, await this antic­i­pated sequel for all Muppet fans!

- Vulture