The latest Sesame Street movie serves as Krisel’s first major studio movie after spending several years on the Emmy Award-winning series Portlandia.
Portlandia director and co-creator Jonathan Krisel (Baskets, Kroll Show) will be directing Warner Bros. Pictures’ live-action Sesame Street musical, Variety has confirmed.
The Sesame Street movie is being produced by Oscar nominee Shawn Levy (Arrival) alongside Michael Aguilar (Kidding).
Sesame Street has come to the big screen twice before: in 1985 with Sesame Street Presents Follow That Bird and in 1999 with Elmo in Grouchland.