Published at 12:57 PM on November 10, 2010

By Bonnie Stiernberg

There's an R-Rated Jim Henson Movie in the Works

There's an R-Rated Jim Henson Movie in the Works

We weren’t aware that puppet noir was a real genre, but apparently that’s exactly what the latest from The Henson Company will be.

Vulture reports that Brian Henson, son of the late Jim Henson, is helming The Happytime Murders. The movie is set in a world where puppets and humans coexist and puppets are treated as second-class citizens. When the stars of an old puppet TV show start being murdered one by one, an alcoholic, ex-cop puppet and his human partner team up to investigate.

Cameron Diaz has been offered a role in the flick, though there’s no word on who she’d play. The movie is expected to be quite the raunchfest, and according to Vulture, it "is definitely not a PG-13 movie. They’re not fucking around with this: It’s ‘Go big or go home.’”

One scene from the movie’s script features a cow puppet being milked by a puppet octopus, and the stage direction reads, “The cow MOOS in ecstasy. MILK is just SQUIRTING EVERYWHERE.” Yikes! What would Kermit say?

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