Ricky Gervais in Talks to Lead The Muppets Sequel....

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Ricky Gervais in Talks to Lead The Muppets Sequel

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=98172

Source: The Hollywood Reporter​

December 17, 2012​

Walt Disney Pictures' upcoming sequel to their 2011 The Muppets appears to have found its human lead. The Hollywood Reporter brings word that Ricky Gervais is in talks to star. He'd join the just-confirmed Ty Burell, who will play an Interpol agent.

Director James Bobin and writer Nicholas Stoller are set to return behind the camera, but Jason Segel will not be back as the star. Gervais' character (which is still unknown) will likely fill in as a similar style of leading man.

"We kind of felt like we completed Gary's story in the first one," Stoller told ComingSoon.net in a recent interview, "and he's mostly interested in writing stuff for him to be in, which makes sense, right? He didn't want to go on and write the next one. I was like, 'Do you care if I do it with James?' He's like, 'Of course not.'"

Currently involved in quite a few television projects, Gervais last appeared on the big screen in 2009's The Invention of Lying.

 

[lilclerk]

I am all about that.

 

[Mickey_777]

Meh. Not a fan of that guy.

 

[awoogala]

eww. the only thing that would keep me from any muppet movie... might be this!

 

[216bruce]

My enthusiasm for a sequel just tanked. Can't stand the guy.

 

[Matt7187]

 

[Ariel484]

Kind of sick of him.

 

[lilclerk]

Guess I'm alone

 

[Thrill Seeker]

I like Girvais, and The Muppets, so it sounds good to me...

 

[Master Yoda]

Guess I'm alone

You are not alone. I love the guy.

 

[The Mighty Tim]

Good God no!

Ricky Gervais is the most annoying person in this universe, all parallel universes and the spaces between universes. In my opinion.

 

[Master Yoda]

Good God no!

Ricky Gervais is the most annoying person in this universe, all parallel universes and the spaces between universes. In my opinion.

You have seen Russel Brand haven't you?

 

[216bruce]

You have seen Russel Brand haven't you?

Yep. And the two of them together would be a new circle of hell in Dante's Inferno.

 

[The Mighty Tim]

You have seen Russel Brand haven't you?

Yes, I have. He's up there in the list of "all-time annoying people in all of infinite space".

 

[Calvin Coolidge]

You have seen Russel Brand haven't you?

I can't stand Russell Brand but I would absolutely take him over Rickey Gervais for the Muppets.

 

[icecreamrules]

I love Ricky, An Idiot Abroad is funny stuff.