{"id":7523,"date":"2010-03-16T23:11:40","date_gmt":"2010-03-17T04:11:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=7523"},"modified":"2018-12-08T23:37:59","modified_gmt":"2018-12-09T04:37:59","slug":"jason-segel-gets-some-felt-co-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2010\/03\/16\/jason-segel-gets-some-felt-co-stars\/","title":{"rendered":"Jason Segel Gets Some Felt Co-Stars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/JasonSegel.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-7526\" title=\"JasonSegel\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/JasonSegel-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>Jason Segel has signed to be the human star of the upcoming, untitled Muppet film. The announcement comes as no surprise as he co-wrote the project&#8217;s screenplay with Nicholas Stoller, his director on the comedy <strong>Forgetting Sarah Marshall<\/strong>. Although Disney is trying to keep the plot underwraps, Segel will be playing a someone who sets out to reunite the Muppets so they can stop an evil oil tychoon from tearing down their old theater in order to drill for oil underneath.<\/p>\n<p>Segel has been vocal about his love of the muppets, to the point where he wrote a puppet musical number to be performed by his <strong>Forgetting Sarah Marshall <\/strong>character in that film. There&#8217;s no doubt in my mind that Segal scripted the part with himself in mind.<\/p>\n<p>James Bobbin, co-creator\/writer\/director of HBO&#8217;s <em>Flight Of The Conchords<\/em> is set to direct though no start date for production has been scheduled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">Jason Segel has signed to be the human star of the upcoming, untitled Muppet film. The announcement comes as no surprise as he co-wrote the project&#8217;s screenplay with Nicholas Stoller, his director on the comedy <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2010\/03\/16\/jason-segel-gets-some-felt-co-stars\/\" title=\"Jason Segel Gets Some Felt Co-Stars\">[click for more]<\/a><\/div>\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":[21,2606,1513,2466],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7523","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"tag-casting","8":"tag-james-bobbin","9":"tag-jason-segel","10":"tag-muppets"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[2],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7523","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=7523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7523"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=7523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}