I’m a fan of the Henson puppetry, and I’ve loved some of their work. Now though, according to Cinema Blend, they are set to go against their reasons for selling to Disney and return to their muppet past:
Muppet Central News reports that The Jim Henson Company is working to create a new Fraggle Rock feature film. Reportedly, the movie will feature Fraggles in outer space (not the one with stars, our world)…they’re shooting for family film…
…The thing that might seem a little confusing here is that part of the Henson Company’s reason for selling the Muppets to Disney, was to free themselves up to pursue more “adult” projects like the upcoming film MirrorMask and the unfairly cancelled TV show “Farscape”.
So why go back to something like Fraggle Rock? If you were going to revive the Muppets of the past surely you would go to a proper Muppet movie with Kermit and the gang? I loved them way more than Fraggle. The big question here though is really is this a turnaround on previous thinking, are they abandoning the idea of more adult features? Does this mean the end for a Dark Crystal remake The Power of the Dark Crystal and more projects like MirrorMask and Farscape? I hope not, it would be a shame to lose that and have the company stuck in and old, although not entirely unappreciated, rut with the Muppets.
