Date: Wed, 03 May 2006 19:25:02 -0700
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Subject: [Puptcrit] Dark Crystal 2


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http://www.nowplayingmag.com/content/view/3663/2/


Henson Company co-CEO Brian Henson got on the
phone with Now Playing recently to promote the
DVD release of the first two seasons of the
animatronic sitcom Dinosaurs. And it didn=92t take
long for him to begin spilling secrets about his
upcoming projects. First up is the =93Battleground=94
episode of Stephen King=92s Nightmares and Dreamscapes for TNT.

A Henson doing Stephen King? What gives? =93Well,
I=92ve always wanted to do something not for kids
and I basically got to really exercise that on
Farscape,=94 Henson says. =93So Farscape was my big
adult thing that I did and I did that for a lot
of years. In continuing along that line, I did
this =91Battleground=92 for Nightmares and
Dreamscapes and I think I will do more
drama/science fiction in the sort of X-Files vein
as well as quite likely doing some more science
fiction. I=92m also enjoying some adult comedy. I
think I would likely do some cool puppet pieces
that are puppets but doing adult material.=94

But don=92t look for any evil puppets in
=93Battleground.=94 =93There are characters [but]
they=92re not really puppets. They=92re CG characters
and costumes. It=92s basically about a guy who gets
hunted down in his apartment by a box of toy soldiers.=94

In even bigger news for children of the 1980s,
the Henson Company is doing a feature length
Fraggle Rock movie. =93I think we announced that
we=92re trying to develop a Fraggle Rock movie a
little bit earlier than we=92re doing it. Yes,
we=92re writing a Fraggle Rock movie and trying to pull it together.=94

It=92s been so long that they may have to
reintroduce the origin story of the Fraggles, but
devotees need not worry about a cheap remake. =93I
think it was more realizing the Fraggles in a
slightly different environment. It was to do
something that sort of stands next to Fraggle
Rock rather than [is] a continuation of [it].=94

You=92ll see all your favorite Fraggles, and you
won=92t even be able to tell that the original
puppets have been lost to mothballs. =93Well, we
have to rebuild them because they=92re old, but it
would be with a lot of those characters, definitely.=94

On the front burner for Henson is a sequel to the
cult classic The Dark Crystal. =93We are trying to
pull the business pieces together on a Dark
Crystal sequel. That one=92s pretty far along. It=92s
got a good, strong script, a great vision for how
to do it and we=92re just trying to [put it together].=94

Much of the talent involved with the original
Dark Crystal has left the Henson Company, so
recreating that world will take more than just
rebuilding the puppets. =93For Dark Crystal, almost
none of the voices were actually the puppeteers,
so they were mostly voice artists. Where
characters need to have the same voice we would
likely try to find those voice artists or look for other voice artists.=94

If Dark Crystal 2 happens, the obvious follow-up
to Labyrinth would not be far behind. But
Henson=92s not thinking of an outright sequel for
that world. =93Actually, we=92re talking about doing
something different with Labyrinth but I can=92t
really talk about it. So we=92re not really working
on a sequel for Labyrinth right now, but Dark Crystal we are.=94


Steve Axtell
Axtell Expressions, Inc.
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