It’s been a long, long time since we heard any news about Happytime Murders, the Jim Henson Company’s long in-development puppet murder mystery film. Now here’s something from Variety: Katherine Heigl (currently on the screen in One for the Money) is in “final negotiations” to star in the project alongside a cast of Henson puppets. Cameron Diaz’s name was mentioned in connection to Happytime some time ago, so it seems pretty likely that Heigl is up for the same role.
I guess we haven’t talked about this movie much on Tough Pigs, so in case you forgot, it’s a not-for-kids movie about a detective solving the murders of cast members from a children’s puppet show. Variety describes the story as taking place “in a world where puppets and humans live together, but the puppets are viewed as second-class citizens,” so we can expect every review of the finished film to compare it to Who Framed Roger Rabbit.
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by Ryan Roe – Ryan@ToughPigs.com
