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Get Him to the Greek writer/director Nicholas Stoller has been working with his Forgetting Sarah Marshall star, Jason Segel, on The Greatest Muppet Movie Ever Made. Stoller and Segel have been collaborating on the script, which will probably not have a lot of drug references and penis jokes in it. James Bobin, of The Flight of the Conchords, is directing.

"It will shoot in September. We had a table read with all the Muppets that went really well," Stoller reports. "It's definitely old-school Muppets, like The Muppet Movie or The Great Muppet Caper.

"When you watch The Muppet Movie now, first of all it hasn't aged, it's still totally relevant somehow. It feels like a Simpsons episode, but not cynical like The Simpsons. There are so many jokes and it's so self-aware, it breaks the fourth wall . . . it has a real sweetness, you know, and to get to write for those characters - for Kermit and Miss Piggy and Gonzo and Fozzie - is kind of a dream come true. I always call the Muppets the gateway drug for comedy nerds."

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