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How R-Rated is Brian Henson's The Happytime
Murders?
Screenwriter Todd Berger says 'It is full-on R. There is
swearing, there's sex, violence, murder.' [...]
We got to interview Todd Berger for the film he directed, It’s A
Disaster, playing at the Los Angeles Film Festival this week. We’ll
bring you the full interview with Berger soon, but at the end we
discussed his upcoming projects. As a screenwriter, he is writing
Brian Henson’s puppet murder mystery The Happytime Murders and, for
MGM, a movie based on Where’s Waldo.
“I want to try to make the Heat of puppet movies,” Berger said. “I
want to be the Dark Knight or Heat but in a world where puppets and
humans coexist. Brian was like, ‘This mystery actually needs to be
interesting so that even if you took all the comedy out of it, it’s
still going to be interesting to watch.”
Happytime Murders has already been announced as an R-rated film,
but Berger described the extent of its adult nature, and why it
couldn’t even be toned down if they tried. “It is full-on R. There
is swearing, there’s sex, violence, murder. There’s no way. Maybe
with some work it could be PG-13 but as of now we’ve embraced the R
rating.”
The Henson Company will be introducing new puppet characters in
this film, and they’ll be giving some screen time to obscure,
existing puppets you may not know yet. “Brian has actually already
been working on the main character puppet. The Creature Shop has
already made a few test puppets that I’ve met in person that are
amazing. Then the whole world, because it’s not associated with The
Muppets which are owned by Disney, it’s a movie in which puppets
and humans coexist and a lot of the supporting characters are all
puppets. So they have a puppet improv group called Stuffed &
Unstrung that tours around America doing improv shows. They’re
going to use a lot of those puppets but they’re also going to
create a bunch of new ones. There’s a whole cast of characters in
the script that they’re going to create from scratch.”
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