The Muppets…Again! may have been shooting for several weeks, but it’s never too late to add a cameo – indeed we’ve been promised quite a few in the movie. The latest to join is Tom Hiddleston, who according to the MuppetHenson blog, has landed a small role in the movie.

While Disney owns both The Muppets and Marvel, he’s not playing Loki in the film, although that would have been oddly awesome. According to Hiddleston’s online CV, he’s playing someone called The Great Escapo, who is presumably a magician, although we don’t know exactly how he’ll fit into the movie.

Here’s the film’s synopsis: ‘Disney’s ‘The Muppets …Again!’ takes the entire Muppets gang on a global tour, selling out grand theatres in some of Europe’s most exciting destinations, including Berlin, Madrid and London. But mayhem follows the Muppets overseas, as they find themselves unwittingly entangled in an international crime caper headed by Constantine—the World’s Number One Criminal and a dead ringer for Kermit—and his dastardly sidekick Dominic, aka Number Two, portrayed by Ricky Gervais, creator of ‘Derek’ and the Golden Globe®- and Emmy®-winning series ‘The Office’ and ‘Extras’. The film stars Golden Globe-, Emmy- and SAG Award®-winning actress and writer Tina Fey (‘30 Rock’, ‘Mean Girls’, ‘Date Night’) as Nadya, a feisty prison guard, and Emmy Award winner Ty Burrell (TV’s ‘Modern Family’) as Interpol agent Jean Pierre Napoleon.’

Walt Disney Studios has announced that The Muppets…Again has started production, and to celebrate they’ve released the first couple of images, which you can see above and below. One features Miss Piggy with Ricky Gervais, while the other has a whole band of Muppets hanging around in a station (if you’re wondering who’s in the telephone box, it’s director James Bobin) – as you can guess, Kermit and co. are coming to London as part of a European tour.

Here’s the press release announcing the start of production: The filmmaking team behind 2011’s celebrated film ’The Muppets’ reunites as Disney’s ’The Muppets … Again!’ kicked off production last week in London. The all-new global Muppets adventure welcomes Ricky Gervais, Ty Burrell and Tina Fey to the mayhem, along with Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy, Walter and rest of the Muppets.

The film is directed by James Bobin (‘Flight of the Conchords,’ ‘Da Ali G Show’), who was just nominated for a BAFTA for ‘The Muppets’ (Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer), and produced by the Academy Award®-nominated team of David Hoberman and Todd Lieberman (‘The Fighter’, ‘The Proposal’). With a screenplay by Bobin and Nicholas Stoller (‘The Five-Year Engagement’), who is also executive producer with John Scotti, ‘The Muppets … Again!’ will feature music from Academy Award®-winning songwriter Bret McKenzie (‘Flight of the Conchords’), who won an Oscar® for best original song for ‘The Muppets’ (‘Man or Muppet’). The new film will hit the big screen March 21, 2014.

‘It’s great to be back working with the Muppets,’ said Bobin, ‘some of them even remember my name occasionally now. As for the movie, it’s a tip of the hat to the old-school crime capers of the ’60s, but featuring a frog, a pig, a bear and a dog—no panthers, even pink ones—along with the usual Muppet-y mix of mayhem, music and laughs.’

Disney’s ‘The Muppets …Again!’ takes the entire Muppets gang on a global tour, selling out grand theatres in some of Europe’s most exciting destinations, including Berlin, Madrid and London. But mayhem follows the Muppets overseas, as they find themselves unwittingly entangled in an international crime caper headed by Constantine—the World’s Number One Criminal and a dead ringer for Kermit—and his dastardly sidekick Dominic, aka Number Two, portrayed by Ricky Gervais, creator of ‘Derek’ and the Golden Globe®- and Emmy®-winning series ‘The Office’ and ‘Extras’.

The film stars Golden Globe-, Emmy- and SAG Award®-winning actress and writer Tina Fey (‘30 Rock’, ‘Mean Girls’, ‘Date Night’) as Nadya, a feisty prison guard, and Emmy Award winner Ty Burrell (TV’s ‘Modern Family’) as Interpol agent Jean Pierre Napoleon. Said Kermit the Frog, ‘This movie takes us places we’ve never been before. And trust me—this frog has never seen so much international flavour. I think audiences will eat it up—the entertainment, that is.’

Featuring a slew of surprising celebrity cameos, Disney’s ‘The Muppets … Again!’ will shoot on location in London and in Hollywood, as well as in the famed Pinewood Studios in Iver Heath, Buckinghamshire, just outside of London.

A lot of people grumbled when Ricky Gervais was cast as the male lead in The Muppets 2, but there should be less division over that fact 30 Rock’s Tina Fey is now in talks for the female lead in the movie, according to THR. Assuming she does sign on, it would mean both last year and this year’s Golden Globe Awards hosts would be in the film.

Plot details are being held under wraps, but it’s slipped out that Fey is going to play a Russian gulag prison guard. Ty Burrell will be playing a lazy Interpol inspector, while Ricky Gervais’s character is still unknown. The film will see Kermit and co, heading to Europe.

It’s also been suggested by /Film that the working title for the film is The Muppets… Again, although it’s not known if that’s the name it will come to cinemas under.

James Bobin will be back to direct the sequel from a screenplay he wrote with Nick Stoller. Production is scheduled to begin this month in London.

It’s news that will delight some and annoy others, THR has revealed that Ricky Gervais is in negotiations to take the lead human role in The Muppets 2. Not much is known about the specifics of the part, although it is being compared to Jason Segel’s role in The Muppets.

Assuming Gervais does sign up, he’ll join Modern Family star Ty Burrell, who has replaced Christoph Waltz as an Interpol policeman. There is another major human role, a Russian femme fatale, but that part has not been cast yet. As you may have guessed, the sequel takes Kermit and company to Europe, although specific plot details have not been revealed. It will be Gervais’ first lead role since 2009′s The Invention of Lying.

Muppets director James Bobin is back in the director’s chair, working for a screenplay he co-wrote with Nick Stoller. Shooting is scheduled to begin this winter in London.

A couple of months ago, it was revealed that Christoph Waltz was in talk to star in The Muppets 2. However a deal couldn’t be reached with the Oscar winner due to scheduling conflicts and so he’s been replaced by Modern Family star Ty Burrell, according the THR.

Burrell is set to play an Interpol inspector, one of the key, non-puppet roles, in a film that’s said to bring Kermit and co. to Europe. Other parts that are still being cast are a Russian femme fatale and a mysterious male lead. There are also expected to be a slew of cameos.

Muppets director James Bobin is returning helm the film, working from a screenplay he co-wrote with Nick Stoller. Jason Segel, who co-wrote and starred in The Muppets is not coming back for the sequel. Shooting is slated to begin this winter in London (which means Burrell is going to have to slot in his role amongst his Modern Family commitments).

Django Unchained and Inglourious Basterds star Christoph Waltz is looking for something a bit lighter to his usual fare, as he has entered negotiations to star in The Muppets 2 for Disney and director James Bobin, according to THR.

The actor will apparently play an Interpol agent in the sequel, which will be see Kermit and his cohorts heading to Europe. Waltz’s role is apparently one of the few key human parts, aside from a slew of cameos. Other non-Muppet roles include a Russian femme fatale and the male lead, whose intentions are always questionable. The Muppets star Jason Segel will not be returning for the follow-up. However other than that, there’s not too much info on the plot. That said, it’s previously been said the movie is a homage to 1981′s The Great Muppet Caper.

James Bobin will direct from a screenplay he co-wrote with Nick Stoller.

James Bobin scored himself a major hit directing The Muppets, and now Variety reports that he has signed on to helm Agent Zigzag for New Line Cinema, a project which has been languishing in development for the past five years.

Back in September 2007, New Line Cinema purchased the rights to Ben McIntyre’s book, with Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman set to produce. Two years later, the studio hired Mark Bomback to adapt this true-story tale. However nothing’s been heard about it since.

The plot is based on the true story of Eddie Chapman, a criminal who was trained by the Nazis to spy on the British during World War II. After arriving in the UK, he contacted MI5 and became a double agent, spying on the Germans for Britain.

Rowan Joffe wrote the latest version of the screenplay. It isn’t clear if this will be James Bobin’s next project, since he is still attached to make The Muppets 2 (it isn’t known when that will shoot either).

Almost since it was published in 1980, Hollywood has been sniffing around John Kennedy Toole’s A Confederacy Of Dunces for a film adaptation, but it’s never happened. Now Paramount say they’re moving forward with Dunces, with Vulture reporting that Zach Galifianakis is in talks to star, and Muppets helmer Jame Bobin may direct.

Cedar Rapids’ writer Phil Johnston is attached to write the script for this latest version of the script, The book is set in the early 60s in New Orleans, where a lazy, overweight, strangely dressed modern Don Quixote is forced to move out of his mother’s house and find his place in the world.

A film version came closest to reality in 2005 when Ferrell was attached to play the lead and David Gordon Green was going to direct. Steven Soderbergh and Scott Kramer were writing the script and Lily Tomlin was on-board to play Ignatius’ mother. Whether it really happens this time is still uncertain, but they’re certainly trying.

It’s a bit of a good news/bad news scenario, as Variety reports that Disney has decided to move forward with a sequel to The Muppets, but actor/writer Jason Segel will not be involved in writing the script – he may still star though.

Instead of Segel, Disney has signed deals with The Muppets director James Bobin and Segel’s co-writer Nick Stoller to come up with the screenplay for the sequel. Segel’s out as his commitments to other projects mean he won’t be available to write the script.

Even though Jason won’t be writing The Muppets sequel, insiders claim he is still open to starring in the follow-up, if the James Bobin/Nick Stoller script is to his liking.