Muppets to the City

Muppets on Broadway is a 2025 American musical crime comedy film and the ninth and final theatrical film featuring the Muppets. It is the second and final sequel to 2011's "The Muppets" and a stand-alone sequel to 2014's "Muppets Most Wanted." It is the third and final installment to complete the trilogy, in cooperation with The Jim Henson Company and co-produced by Jim Henson Pictures, with many similarities of the 1984 Sony/TriStar film, Muppets Take Manhattan. The plot for this movie is that the Muppets are trying to buy a Broadway theater for a Muppet musical as they stay at the Happiness Hotel in New York. Bret MacKenzie and Nick Stroller return to be writing for this movie. The human cast include Hugh Jackman (John Potts), Emily Blunt (Linda Potts), and Olivia Holt (Julie Potts). It is scheduled to be released on May 19, 2025.

Plot
After the events of Muppets Most Wanted, the Muppets decide to do a next sequel about themselves who come to New York City to stay at the Happiness Hotel infested with Muppets while trying to get their musical variety show on Broadway. The theater inside the hotel has acts featuring the Zucchini Brothers, Wayne and Wanda, Bobby Benson's Baby Band, a melodrama with Miss Poogy, Uncle Deadly, and Wayne, Bouncing Borcelino Brothers, Elvises performing "Suspicious Minds", Lubbock Lou's Jug Huggers jug band, etc. More info coming soon.

Human Cast

 * Hugh Jackman as John Potts
 * Emily Blunt as Linda Potts
 * Olivia Holt as Julie Potts
 * Trey Parker as Mac Nilson, the main antagonist; a merciless prisoner who desires to get revenge on the Muppets

Muppet Characters

 * Matt Vogel as Kermit the Frog
 * Eric Jacobson as Fozzie Bear, Miss Piggy and Animal


 * Dave Goelz as the Great Gonzo
 * Peter Linz as Walter

Songs

 * We're Doing a Trilogy - The Muppets
 * Hollaback Girl - Gwen Stefani
 * Cake By The Ocean - DNCE
 * You Really Got Me - The Kinks
 * Oh Yeah - Yello
 * Break Free - Ariana Grande
 * Low - Flo Rida featuring T-Pain
 * Immigrant Song - Led Zeppelin
 * Thunderstruck - AC/DC
 * What A Wonderful World - Louis Armstrong
 * Love's Dance - Earth Wind & Fire
 * Rainbow Connection - Muppets
 * Timber - Pitbull and Ke$ha
 * Together Again - Tori Kelly & Bret McKenzie

Trivia

 * This is the true and final film to complete the trilogy.
 * The Happiness Hotel of New York (formerly the Muppet Hotel), a free hotel but not always dissipating as the one in London, has 4000 deluxe rooms, four restaurants including a buffet, a swimming pool and waterpark, a petting farm, a 5,000,000 gallon aquarium, a concert, an IMAX movie theater, a nightclub, a comedy club, eight ballrooms, a convention center, a conference room, a video arcade, a live stage theater, a spa, a business center, a fitness center, a transit station with a bus, taxi, and shuttle, a pet resort, and even a monster resort.
 * This movie will be filmed at Kaufman Astoria Studios in New York City, New York (that is where Sesame Street is taped since 1992).
 * The obscure characters from Fraggle Rock (including Sprocket) and "Dog City" make their first appearance on a Muppet film since Muppet Treasure Island when The Jim Henson Company, who owns Fraggle Rock and "Dog City", gives Disney permission to use them for this movie as background characters.
 * Some members of the Borcelino Brothers were recycled from Captain Pighead, David Hoggselhoff, and early versions of Andy and Randy Pig of "Muppet Classic Theater".
 * Working titles for this movie include "The Muppets 3" and "The Muppets...Once Again".
 * During the credits: The Muppets talk in the theater after the screening of the movie while an instrumental track plays.