In the 2011 Muppets movie, Gonzo had moved on from the Muppets ensemble and started his own flourishing toilet company: Gonzo’s Royal Flush.
He initially rejects Kermit’s plea to return to the Muppets. His life as a CEO was what he wanted. His fine suit, his fine wife (a Chicken, of course), his sprawling business empire… He was living the dream.
But then, he comes to, and decides to rejoin the Muppets.
But this is the best part, from his suit, he withdraws a detonator.
He activates it, and blows up his whole industrial complex.
Like, why did he have to destroy it? Why did he decide to rig his whole operation with explosives? Was he really coming to work every day with the detonator in his breast pocket??
This is the high drama piece I want. I want to see Gonzo rise to the top while his internal struggles and duality is tearing him apart.
The Muppets: Fight Club
G/11 was an inside job
The Rocky Horror Muppet Show
If you haven’t seen Meet The Feebles, you should.
A movie that opens with a walrus fucking a cat. This is not even the slightest exaggeration.
Relatedly, Jim Henson originally wanted to name the Muppets show “The Muppet Show: Sex and Violence.” This was to set it apart from his kid friendly Sesame Street productions, an image he was afraid he’d be saddled and typecast with forever.
This probably inspired the tone of the Feebles. Nobody believes it was directed by Peter Jackson. Yes, that Peter Jackson.
Now you’re making me want a muppets LOTR.
Of all the remakes that Hollywood could do, why not this one?!
Directed by Tim Burton.
The best Muppet movies are modern retellings of old stories, like Treasure Island or A Christmas Carol. So I say we make Muppet Fall of the House of Usher.
Muppet call of cthulhu, I want to see a muppet shoggoth
So… Have you seen Meet The Feebles…
Never again.
🎼*“Sodomy…”*🎶
Muppet Treasure Island still holds up tbh
I think it’s the best telling of treasure Island. The other one that comes close is treasure planet, but I prefer the Muppets one.
Tim Curry is eternal
I want a remake the Knives Out movies with nothing but Muppets and Daniel Craig.
Whom Miss Piggy consistently suspects is actually 007, refuses to accept any proof to the contrary, and makes increasingly amorous overtures to vow to keep his secret safe? These, naturally, only end up confounding the investigation’s progress rather quickly, all the way up to her faking her own death (to “flush out the real killer”), and Benoit breaks the 4th wall when he realizes he’s now trapped in a series of movies with the lot of them.
Interesting, because the last 25 years of Muppet productions have generated abysmally little interest.
It’s a shame, because the first Muppets reboot movie with Jason Segel was actually really good. The music was top-notch, and IIRC Bret from Flight Of The Concords won an Oscar for one of the songs.
Man or Muppet?
I would love to see how Gaston looks in this remake.
I’d cast him as Sam the Eagle.
“It is the American…I mean, French way!”
Personally, I’d choose Link Hogthrob.
Oh that’s even better! I forgot about him XD
Edit: Alternative gender-swap casting: make Kermit belle, cast Miss Piggy as Gaston(ella.) Overly aggressive sexual advances and egotism have always been her thing after all.
I don’t think she’d be very happy about Kermie ending up with someone else at the end of the movie. She’d have to play the Beast, too!
Anyone down for a Muppet - Star Trek crossover?
Pigs In Spaaaace?
I want to see Gonzo as Sam Spade in The Maltese Chicken.
Muppet Revenge of the Sith, Muppet Order 66.
Ya’ll are crazy. Muppet Princess Bride with Sweetums as Fezzik.
I want a muppet remake of Boondock Saints.
edit: but no muppet for Willem Dafoe, he’s back to reprise his role like nothing is unusual here
What would be the most inappropriate Muppet remake? Off the top of my head:
- Muppet Schindler’s List
- A Serbian Muppet Film
- Requiem for a Muppet Dream
- Muppet Audition
- Old Muppet Boy
