Brett McKenzie working with Muppets director

Flight Of The Conchords star Bret McKenzie is working on a comedy musical, partly inspired by Labyrinth.

The musical comic made a name for himself in Hollywood with the songshe wrote for the 2011 Muppets film, and is also working on the forthcoming sequel Muppets Most Wanted.

And now he is planning another movie involving a lot of puppets – although he said he was still in the relatively early stages of development with Muppets director James Bobin.

He told the pop culture website Collider: ‘I’m in the middle of a script for a kind of… It hasn’t got a name yet but it’s a fairy tale comedy musical, sort of akin to Labyrinth or something like that.’

‘I’m developing and that script’s halfway through. James Bobin’s helping me. I’m the official writer but we’re developing it.

‘I want to make a comedy musical with singing dragons and monsters and stuff. [It’s] live-action, so it would be a mixture of The Muppets and The Princess Bride.’

Bobin made his directorial debut with The Muppets, and previously helped helped create Ali G, Borat, and Brüno while working as a writer and director on the 11 O’Clock Show alongside Sacha Baron Cohen. He first worked with McKenzie on the Flight Of The Conchords HBO show.

Published: 11 Aug 2013