With Jason Segel out of Disney’s upcoming sequel to The Muppets, Tina Fey is in talks to replace the How I Met Your Mother actor and star opposite Ricky Gervais in the film.The Hollywood Reporterhas the news that Fey is negotiating to star alongside Gervais and Ty Burrell as the Muppets head to Europe. Here’s what they have to say about the plot: “The script is being kept secret, but the character descriptions point to a caper. Burrell, as first revealed by THR, is playing a lazy Interpol inspector. If a deal is finalized, sources say Fey would play a Russian gulag prison guard.”The Muppets director and co-writer James Bobin, and his co-writer Nicholas Stoller, will return to shepherd the film through production.
