Oh, this has been in the back of my mind for years!
The Rocky Horror Picture Show:
- Kermit and Piggy as Brad and Janet
- Gonzo as Frank’n’Furter
- Statler and Waldorf as Magenta and Columbia
- Fozzy - Riff Raff
- Animal - Rocky
- Scooter - Eddie
- Bunsen Honeydew - Dr Scott
“I remember doing the time warp. Wocka Wocka!”
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Schindlers List…
I am very sorry.
The Passion of Christ
Lol I see now I’m late to the party to suggest this one
There is not a single movie that isn’t better with Muppets.
I’d love to see muppets do Hellraiser. Kermi has such sights to show you. YAAAAAAAYYYY.
Buckaroo Bonzai. Clancy Brown reprises as Rawhide. Gonzo is Perfect Tommy.
Kermit as Jake and Fozzy as Elwood Blues.
Miss Piggy can have the Carrie Fisher role.
I still want the Muppet D&D movie, where the Muppets are playing at the table and human actors (voiced by the muppets) represent them during the action.
Animal house. Animal is John Belushi of course…
Les Miserables, but it wouldn’t work.
You would need enough female Muppets for, at minimum:
Cosette, Fantine, Madame Thenardier, and Eponine. You could get away with casting the entire convent with penguins, I guess.
But you run out of female Muppets surprisingly quickly. It’s Miss Piggy, Janice, Camilla, and that’s more or less it. Camilla can only make chicken noises, and even then, Fantine and Cosette need to be cast as believably related to each other, as do Madame Thenardier and Eponine.
Then there’s the problem of Gavroche. The most likely casting would be Robin. You gonna kill Robin?
And the natural choice for Javert is Sam the Eagle, who would never play a Frenchman.
Swedish Chef as the innkeeper…
Mester ouff zee-a huouse-a,
duleeng ouout zee-a cherm
Reedy vit a huondsheke-a und un oupee-a pelm
Tells a suocy tele-a,
mekes a leettle-a stur
Cuostumers ippreceete-a a bun-fifeuor
Gled tu du a friend a fefur
Duesn’t cust me-a tu be-a nice-a
Buot nuzeeng gets yuou nuzeeng
Iferyzeeng hes gut a leettle-a price-a!Mester ouff zee-a huouse-a,
keeper ouff zee-a zuo
Reedy tu releefe-a ‘im ouff a suou our tvu Vetering zee-a vine-a, mekeeng up zee-a veeght
Pickeen’ up zeeur knick-knecks vhee-a zeey cuon’t see-a streeght
Iferybudy lufes a luondlurd
Iferybudy’s busum friend
I du vhetefer pleeses
Jesuos! Vun’t I bleed 'im in zee-a ind!
Bork Bork Bork!There were other pigs who played Miss piggy’s daughters* in the Muppet Christmas carol. Edit,: I originally called her daughter’s her sisters.
Daughters.
The Princess Bride.
Kermit - Westley
Miss Piggy - Buttercup
Gonzo - Inigo
Fozzie - Fezzik
Rizzo - Vizzini
Uncle Deadly - Count Rugen
Dr Bunsen - Miracle Max
Beaker - Valerie
Sam - the Impressive Clergyman
Swedish Chef - the Albino
Rowlf - Grandpa/NarratorFred Savage would reprise his original role. Humperdinck would be played by Benedict Cumberbatch.
“Anybody want a peanut? Waka waka!”
This isn’t really something I’d like done by the muppets per se, but I can’t help but bring up there are a ton of stories from the East that have never seen screen time on mainstream TV, like the story of Momotaro or the 108 Heroes of the Water Margin, both of these which can be argued as ideas.
The Sound of Music
Inglorious Bastards
Arabian Nights “Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp” (Not Disney’s Aladdin) Gonzo and Fozzy could be the Genie’s Note I say Genie’s plural because in the original Arabian Knights story, there are two. He has one that he can summon from a ring that in the Disney adaptation became the carpet and the other from the lamp that’s “The second more powerful Genie” Source for the uninformed
Other than that, I could see Aladdin being human or Kermit, and Rizzo being the “Abu character / friend” Miss Piggy could be the princess character or she could be another human
