The Jim Henson Company has decided the world is finally ready for puppet noir. Variety describes Happytime Murders as “a puppet comedy in the film noir detective genre…The pic will be populated by a mix of human characters and puppets in the Henson style of irreverence and parody. Story centers on a puppet detective forced to solve a string of murders around the Happytime Gang, the cast of a popular children's show.” So it’s kind of like Meet the Feebles without the drugs, sodomy and date rape, I guess.
Leap Year is on the way. Amy Adams will star in the romantic comedy as “an uptight woman who travels to Dublin to propose to her boyfriend on leap day, Feb. 29, following an Irish tradition in which women propose to men on that day and the man has to say yes. When weather derails her trip, she enlists the help of a surly Irish innkeeper to make an unexpected cross-country trek to pull off the perfect proposal in time,” The Hollywood Reporter explains. Might she fall for the surly Irish innkeeper? Only time will tell.
Billy Ray (Shattered Glass) will write and direct How to Rig an Election, based on a memoir by former GOP operative Allen Raymond. The film traces Raymond’s “downfall following a campaign to jam phone lines at Democratic Party headquarters in an effort to swing a 2002 Senate election in New Hampshire,” per Variety.
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