{"id":25477,"date":"2012-12-17T19:33:55","date_gmt":"2012-12-18T00:33:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=25477"},"modified":"2012-12-17T19:33:55","modified_gmt":"2012-12-18T00:33:55","slug":"ricky-gervais-up-for-muppets-sequel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2012\/12\/17\/ricky-gervais-up-for-muppets-sequel\/","title":{"rendered":"Ricky Gervais Up For MUPPETS Sequel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/GervaisAndScooter.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-25478\" alt=\"GervaisAndScooter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/GervaisAndScooter.jpg\" width=\"550\" height=\"275\" \/><\/a>British comic actor Ricky Gervais is set to star alongside <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2012\/12\/10\/ty-purell-to-star-in-muppets-sequel\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ty Burrell<\/a> as one of the few humans who will appear opposite the Muppets in the forthcoming sequel to last year&#8217;s hit <strong>The Muppets<\/strong>. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/heat-vision\/ricky-gervais-talks-star-muppets-403365\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Hollywood Reporter<\/em><\/a> is stating that Gervais is currently in talks to appear in the as-yet-unnamed sequel in an unspecified role, though his amount of screen time should be similar to that of Jason Segal&#8217;s who starred in the first film, making him the film&#8217;s lead human character.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to Gervais and Burrell, there is reportedly one other lead character, a woman, who has not been cast yet.<\/p>\n<p>Gervais had been slated to appear in a short cameo in 2011&#8217;s <strong>The Muppets<\/strong> and had even filmed his part only to have it hit the cutting room floor. He can be briefly glimpsed in the background in the film&#8217;s big closing number. It remains to be seen if Gervais will be singing more in this new film as the script is under tight wraps.<\/p>\n<p>Personally, I think that Gervais&#8217;s dry sense of humor will make a nice compliment to the Muppets more wacky antics. Hopefully, this will come out in James Bobin and Nicholas Stoller&#8217;s screenplay.<\/p>\n<p>The untitled <strong>Muppets<\/strong> sequel is set to start filming in London early next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">Another human joins the cast.<\/div>\n<p> <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2012\/12\/17\/ricky-gervais-up-for-muppets-sequel\/\" title=\"Ricky Gervais Up For MUPPETS Sequel\">[click for more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[632,3265],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-25477","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"tag-ricky-gervais","8":"tag-the-muppets"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25477"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=25477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}