Jay BlancWhat I'm saying is that there's only one creative team that has repeatedly demonstrated the ability to produce adaptations of literary classics. And that's why The Muppets should have been allowed to make the Dune movie.
Pseudo Nym@JayBlanc OMG the casting practically writes itself. Kermit as Paul. Miss Piggy as the Bennie Gesserit witch. Beaker as the Mentat...
Antipope Superstar@pseudonym @JayBlanc Sam the Eagle as the emperor
Ausir@pseudonym @julieofthespirits @JayBlanc one problem is that there's too few prominent female muppet characters
@pseudonym @julieofthespirits @JayBlanc there's Miss Piggy, Janice, Yolanda the Rat and Camilla the Chicken and that's kinda it when it comes to major recurring ones
@ausir @pseudonym @JayBlanc there's honestly a lot more minor female pigs out there because Kermit is a fickle frog
@julieofthespirits @JayBlanc @pseudonym I’d make Chani and Irulan Piggy and Denise, but not sure which is which yet
Denise
Denise is a pig who features in the 2015 ABC series The Muppets. She serves as the network's Head of Marketing on Up Late with Miss Piggy. Some time before "Pig Girls Don't Cry", she met Up Late’s Executive Producer, Kermit the Frog at a cross-promotional synergy meeting. Shortly after, they began dating. In an interview with Extra, Kermit says that she was one of the people who had the idea for the Muppets to do a new show, and they hit it off. (VIDEO) He later admitted to Entertainment Tonight
@ausir @julieofthespirits @JayBlanc I'm loving this thoughtful exploration of the depths of Dune and Muppet character interactions.
To touch on a serious topic in relation, could Muppets pull off a respectful use of characters in drag?
I'm sure I recall (but perhaps imagining it) Fozzie in a dress and wig. In its day, transvestite "jokes" were played for laughs.
They way modern drag queens can be celebrated, could a cross-dressing Muppet Dune "work?"
@JayBlanc @pseudonym @julieofthespirits even actual major female characters are usually voiced by men for laughs, problematic especially with characters like Piggy
@julieofthespirits @pseudonym @JayBlanc I’d make Piggy Chani and Denise (Kermit’s younger pig girlfriend from 2015 Muppets) Irulan or the other way around
@ausir @pseudonym @JayBlanc I think it would be funny to watch Janice explain to Kermit how to ride worms though :(