A Muppets Sequel Coming, Possibly Sans Jason Segel

While it wasn't a big grosser in the alternative programming against a Twilight movie in November slot like Tangled, The Muppets wasn't expensive to produce and turned up decent business for Disney to give the go-ahead for more.

Vulture reports the studio has upped deals with helmer James Bobin and co-writer Nicholas Stoller to return for a sequel. The catch is Jason Segel, who first convinced Disney they should give the Muppets another shot on the silver screen, is out from the writing end, citing his commitments to How I Met Your Mother and the forthcoming promotional circuits for Five Year Engagement and This Is Forty. A claim I don't buy since how could that stop him from, at least, working on a treatment, working on it while on the out-and-about pimping his movies or the God-given ability to multi-task?

His returning to star isn't out of the question, Disney spies tell the trades, but in lieu of this development, and said logic, don't hold your breath waiting to see Segel singing and dancing next to Kermit again.