Dark Crystal 2 is coming!!!! Yes, you read that right boys and girls. There is a sequel to The Dark Crystal in the works that will be titled “Power of the Dark Crystal”. I haven’t felt this giddy about a film announcment since they announced there was going to be a Transformers movie!
The following is courtesy of Cinescape:
The story is set hundreds of years after the first film and follows a mysterious girl made of fire who steals a shard of the crystal in hopes of reigniting the dying sun. Annette Duffy and David Odell wrote the script. The Jim Henson Co.’s Lisa Henson and the Orphanage Animation Studios’ Scott Stewart will produce. Brian Froud will design new characters for the film.
The film is going to be directed by… are you ready for this… Genndy Tartakovsky! The man behind Star Wars Clone Wars, Samurai Jack and Dexter’s Laboratory is now brining the goodness to us! Yay!
And for all you purists out there… yes… the characters are going to indeed be puppets! However, they are going to use CG for all the sets and backgrounds. That just makes sense to me… it’ll be a lot cheaper for them to do it that way… still look amazing… and give them more options and flexability.
Preproduction is already underway with full production scheduled to start near the end of summer. Damn I’m excited!!!!
