Jamie Foxx To Play Buddy-cop Opposite A Puppet In The Happytime Murders!

Brian Henson directs the film. Read the full article on AICN “It’s like MIAMI VICE, except Crockett’s a Muppet!”   If you are immediately tickled by the idea of a buddy-cop movie set within a world with sentient, talking puppets, well, you’re not alone.   The Jim Henson Company have been developing THE HAPPYTIME MURDERS for almost a decade now, and have found their star in the guise of Academy Award-winning plantation liberator and alcohol blamer, Jamie Foxx.   Foxx will play Edwards, a human detective who is paired up with “a crass, hard-drinking puppet” to solve a score of puppet-related murders surrounding a TV show called “The Happytime Gang.” The Gang are a family-friendly bunch on-camera, but live shameful, tabloid-exposed lives offscreen, and Foxx and his partner have to dig through the mess that is the cast’s personal lives to end the killings.   I’m getting the sense that Foxx would mostly be playing straight man to his showier, “drinker and philanderer” puppet partner, which falls into line with a lot of the roles he takes these days (WHITE HOUSE DOWN, ANNIE, DREAMGIRLS, even COLLATERAL and DJANGO UNCHAINED).