Tarantino joins Muppets

Iconic filmmaker Quentin Tarantino looks to have signed on to star in the new Muppets film.

16:25 25 August 2004

Iconic filmmaker Quentin Tarantino looks to have signed on to star in the new Muppets film.

The director of gritty and violent films like Reservoir Dogs and Kill Bill will frolic with fuzzy puppets in The Muppet Wizard Of Oz.

Tarantino is set to appear as himself in the film.

Other celebrities set to act alongside Miss Piggy and Kermit the Frog in their latest adventure include Queen Latifah and Ashanti.

The director of It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie, Kirk R Thatcher, is set to take the helm again.