Jamie Foxx Starring in R-Rated Puppet Movie The Happytime Murders
John Squires
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The legendary Jim Henson Company is getting R-rated for upcoming film The Happytime Murders, set to blend puppetry with live action. The project, which caught our attention a while back, sounds like something we need to see right now, and it’s just become even more of a must-watch film now that a star has been found.
Deadline reports that Jamie Foxx is in early negotiations to star in STX Entertainment and the Jim Henson Company’s raucous comedy. The film, which is expected to get an R rating, will be directed by family member Brian Henson.
The story, written by Todd Berger & Dee Robertson and Erich & Jon Hoeber, follows the puppet stars of iconic TV show “The Happytime Gang,” who are some of the biggest celebrities around. But off camera, the family-friendly cast leads the kinds of lives that would make a tabloid writer blush.
When the “Happytime Gang” stars begin to be mysteriously murdered, two mismatched detectives – one a type-A, take-no-prisoners human with a secret and the other a crass, hard-drinking puppet with a connection to one of the victims – must put aside their differences to stop the killings and catch the culprit, all the while trying to resist the temptation to murder each other.
Foxx would play Detective Edwards, an LAPD cop who must re-team with his former partner Phil, a drinker and philanderer who is not keen on Edwards’ good-cop persona. Together they try to solve the murders, all the while bumping heads on each other’s methods.
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