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MichaelMitnick

Michael Mitnick

On April 21, 2021, Deadline reported that a Jim Henson biopic called Muppet Man was in development with the Disney and Henson companies co-producing.

Michael Mitnick (The Current War and The Giver) was signed to script, rewriting a previous script by Aaron and Jordan Kandell (who referred to it in their Academy for Creative Media bios as The Muppet Man),[1] with Lisa Henson producing. The movie was to focus on Henson's journey to convince broadcasters that the Muppets were a viable idea for television.[2]

While promoting the release of Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio in 2022, Lisa Henson commented on the project:[3]

I have been in a slow-motion development deal with [Disney] about Muppet Man, which is a sort fantastical biopic of my father. That would be the Muppet project that I would do with Disney, although it's not soon enough to announce it or talk about it, really, but that's the one that we have in mind. It's only in development and we don't have a director, so I feel I can't really say exactly what it will be like, but it does have a dream-like quality where the puppets are coming to life and mixing that with a true story.

Lisa Henson commented again on the project when asked if a scripted feature was in the works while promoting the release of the 2024 documentary Jim Henson: Idea Man, stating: "The Muppet Man is in development with Disney. It's currently without a director and not on the slate, but everybody sees a lot of potential in it, so perhaps someday."[4]

See also[]

  • The project followed a previous attempt by the Henson Company from 2009 called The Muppet Man by Christopher Weekes, which made that year's Blacklist of unproduced scripts.[2] (see Talk: The Muppet Man)
  • Another biopic, simply titled Henson, also went unproduced.

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