Miss Piggy is ready for her close-up.
On a Nov. 5 appearance on the podcast Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang, actress Jennifer Lawrence announced that she is producing a new film about the diva Muppet character. The project has an Oregon tie: Clatskanie-born Cole Escola has been tapped to write the screenplay.
“I don’t know if I can announce this but I’m just gonna: Emma Stone and I are producing a Miss Piggy movie and Cole is writing it,” Lawrence said on the podcast.
Escola, 38, is the writer and original star of the Broadway comedy Oh, Mary!, which reimagines the life of first lady Mary Todd Lincoln as if she were a stifled cabaret performer. Escola made history earlier this year as the first openly non-binary performer to win a Tony Award for Best Leading Actor

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