Deadline reports that Melissa McCarthy has signed on for The Happytime Murders, a long-gestating puppet noir comedy from The Jim Henson Company. McCarthy will produce on the project—which has been in the works for nearly a decade now, waiting for the right “vulgar puppet” boom to sweep it back into the zeitgeist—with her husband, Ben Falcone. The assumption is that McCarthy would also star in the film, although nobody’s confirming what part—human or otherwise—she might end up playing.
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