Normally I could care less about Disney announcements, but their D23 fan expo has been a hotbed the last couple of days. Disney chairman Dick Cook announced that they were actively developing a new film featuring The Muppets, to be written and likely directed by Forgetting Sarah Marshall's Jason Segel. The film will be titled The Cheapest Muppet Movie Ever Made, and is a reference to one of Jim Henson's last ideas in which the Muppets are forced to make a movie on a back lot due to budget constraints.
Segel's story is different, as he states that his tale involves the Muppets attempting to save Muppet Theatre from an evil businessman. Comingsoon.net has more on the story here.
Segel made himself known as quite the puppeteer and songwriter with his Dracula routine in Forgetting Sarah Marshall, so this seems like the perfect fit. It's certainly a better idea than that awful sounding Sarah Marshall spinoff that's in the works.
