Jennifer Lawrence , Emma Stone and Cole Escola are joining forces to give Miss Piggy the movie-star treatment.

A film about the temperamental diva puppet is in early development at Disney, which owns the rights to the Muppets, according to knowledgable sources. The iconic character, created in the ’70s by Bonnie Erickson and Frank Oz, has never been the subject of a feature film. Lawrence and Stone will serve as producers with Escola, a Tony winner for their hit Broadway play “Oh, Mary!,” set to write the screenplay.

“I don’t know if I can announce this but I am just going to … Emma Stone and I are producing a Miss Piggy movie and Cole is writing it,” Lawrence revealed on the podcast “Las Culturistas,” hosted by Bowen Yang and Matt Rogers . After the co-hosts shrieked with excit

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