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    I reallllly want a Muppet version of Die Hard. Gonzo as John McClane, Animal as Karl, Bert as Hans Gruber, Cookie Monster as Sgt. Powell. I want it played completely straight (not a comedic Muppet version, but a straight ahead remake). I want it so bad.

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    Every movie is a muppet movie waiting to happen.

    “No Country for Old Men”, with the killer played by Sam the blue eagle.

    “Brokeback Mountain”, with Kermit and Foxzie Bear playing the leads, no human roles.

    Rowlf as the unexpected lead in “Lawrence of Arabia”, “Fistful of Dollars”, and “Fistful of Dollars”. In Lawrence of Arabia, only the other British soldiers are played by humans. In the Spaghetti Westerns, the only humans are the women.

    “Smokey and the Bandit”, with Kermit as the Bandit, Rowlf as the trucker, the bride played by a real person, Miss Piggie as Smokey, and Fozzi Bear as the groom/deputy.

    “The Blues Brothers”, starring Kermit and Fozzi as Elwood and Jake. All the other characters are Muppets, but the bands are played by real blues musicians.

    “Brazil”: Kermit as Sam Lowry, Robert Dinero reprising his role as “human” Tuttle, Miss Piggy as Sam’s mother, and Jill Layton played by the only other human.

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    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
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    Every Best Picture Winner Ranked by How Good a Muppets Version Would Be

    https://hard-drive.net/hd/entertainment/every-best-picture-winner-ranked-by-how-good-a-muppets-version-would-be/2/

    “Imagine this. Kermit the Frog in his little Columbo jacket and tiny fedora, backed up by Fozzy, Gonzo, Miss Piggy, and Rizzo. What are they doing? Uncovering the sexual abuse crimes of the catholic church. Billion dollar box-office.”

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    Lord of the Rings (I suppose is a classic by now) Ian McKellen is still Gandalf (a la Michael Cain) and Sauron is muppetfied

    Kermit = Frodo

    Fozzie Bear = Sam

    Gonzo = Merry

    Rizzo = Pippen

    Ms Piggy = Eowyn

    Animal = Gollum

    Doctor Teeth = Gimli

    Janice = Legolas

    Beaker = Arwen

    Doctor Honeydew = Elrond

    Swedish Chef = Saruman

    Sam the Eagle = Faramir

    Rowlf = Aragorn

    Sweetums = Theoden

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    I’d love to see muppets do Hellraiser. Kermi has such sights to show you. YAAAAAAAYYYY.

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    Passion of the Christ.

    Kermit - Jesus
    Miss Piggy - Mary Magdalene
    Fozzie - Peter
    Scooter - Matthew
    Rowlf - Mark
    Sam Eagle - Luke
    Doctor Honeydew - John
    Gonzo - Judas
    Swedish Chef - Pontius Pilate
    Statler and Waldorf - the Jewish elders who condemn Jesus.
    Crazy Harry and Beaker - The two thieves crucified with Jesus.

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    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

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    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.

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      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!

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      There were other pigs who played Miss piggy’s daughters* in the Muppet Christmas carol. Edit,: I originally called her daughter’s her sisters.