12 Most Anticipated Upcoming Original Movie Characters

8. Phil Phillips (Bill Barretta) - The Happytime Murders

The Happytime Murders Phil Phillips Melissa McCarthy
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The Role: A disgraced former puppet cop who is now a P.I., and finds himself re-teamed with his old partner, Connie Edwards (Melissa McCarthy), to investigate a series of puppet murders.

Why You Should Be Excited: The trailer for this R-rated puppet comedy looks absolutely hilarious, and a big part of the reason for that is the inherent absurdity of teaming Melissa McCarthy - who looks to be doing her best work in ages, by the way - with a puppet cop who wantonly drops F-bombs and ejaculates silly string. Yup.

Puppeteer and voice actor Bill Barretta has been working with The Muppets for almost 30 years, so it's safe to say there are very few people capable of pulling this off with his level of expertise. From what we've seen so far, Phil Phillips could end up the most hysterical protagonist of 2018.

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