New Muppets movie must be almost all bluescreen

It may have to do with the fact that they likely shot the Kermit speech scene many MANY times to get each moment of emotion right, whereas there was no need to keep all the audience of Muppets and Muppeteers waiting for Steve to get the scene exactly right from every angle?

I just thought of something else: it would be interesting to find out what the puppeteers thought of all the blue screen they did. I know in the past some of the Muppeteers have said that green screen or blue screen is extremely hard on the puppeteer, as they don't have a set or anything else to work around, but they have to get the placing, eye contact, and everything else right. I think that they've said that that's why Elmo's World is such a pain to shoot, the whole thing needs to basically be done in green screen.

Kermit was shot separately so that his part could be shot without keeping tons of puppeteers waiting. Imagine if Steve got the giggles that day and couldn't get through it for hours. You'd have a very large group of very grumpy puppeteers. Plus it also gives them a clear shot of all the muppets in a group if they wanted to use it in a trailer or something.

Green and blue screen are here to stay and have always been a part of the muppets going all the way back to the muppet show. Heck, the Jim Henson hour was all blue screen.

In fact, I am on blue screen right now. The laptop and MC are both formatted in later.

I think it's great, they are using blue screen.