The characters from the Muppets will return in a new film out during Christmas 2011.
James Bobin will direct the new adventures of Kermit and friends. Jason Segel and Nick Stoller will write the script. Segel (Forgetting Sarah Marshall, I Love You, Man) will also play a human character in the film.
Walt Disney Pictures announced that the film will be released on Christmas Day, 2011, but no other details are available.
The Muppets were created in 1976 by puppeteer Jim Hensen. They have had incredible success both on television and the big screen. In 1992, The Muppet Christmas Carol film was released starring Michael Caine in the role of Ebenezer Scrooge.
The Muppets will face stiff competition when it is released in 2011. Steven Spielberg’s highly anticipated film The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn hits theatres on December 23 next year.
Besides starring with Kermit in this new movie, Jason Segel lends his voice to the character of Victor in Despicable Me which opens on July 9. Segel also stars with Emily Blunt, Jack Black and Amanda Peet in Gulliver’s Travels out on December 22.