Movie producer David Hoberman is on the press circuit to talk about his new film 21 and Over. But since nobody really wants to talk about that, we get to hear him reveal spoilers for The Muppets… Again.
According to Hoberman, we haven’t seen the last of the Moopets. Miss Poogy, Roowlf, and their hard-to-pronounce compadres might be back.
In response to the question of how the new movie will be related to The Great Muppet Caper:
I would say the caper in this is an element of this, but I think there are so many surprises and different, fun stories going on in this one that I would say that is an element of it. The movie culminates in London but we go to Spain, we go to Germany, we go to a lot of different places. We just happen to end up in London. That’s where the caper culminates.
On seeing Walter without Jason Segel’s “Gary” in the film:
The whole idea of the first one was really, the predominant story was him fulfilling his dream and getting accepted by the Muppets and now he is a Muppet. So they said their farewell and who knows? Down the road, maybe they’ll have a reunion of some kind. [Jason Segel]’s not [in a cameo] this go round. We sort of do take off where the last movie ended, even though we have a completely different kind of story.
On Bret McKenzie’s soundtrack:
Bret wrote all these songs for this new movie and they are so different and cover such a wide range of genres, I think we’ve got a couple of spectacular musical numbers in this one and I think it runs the gamut of ballad and comedy songs. Probably one homage to contemporary rock. I think we have five songs in this and they’re all original, so I’m hopeful. Music is so ingrained in the Muppet culture and history, and it’s part of the fun of doing it frankly.
On what the interviewer refers to as Kermit and Piggy’s “real life nuptuals” (I don’t know if he means the finale of Muppets Take Manhattan or if he thinks they’re actually real):
No, but we do tease that in the film.
So there you have it, straight from the producer’s mouth!
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by Joe Hennes – Joe@ToughPigs.com
