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Muppet Man Will Bring Jim Henson’s Life Story to the Big Screen
A long-awaited project for the Jim Henson Company is finally taking a step toward production: Muppet Man, a biopic of puppeteering legend Jim Henson (The Muppets, Fraggle Rock, Sesame Street, The Dark Crystal, Labyrinth), has a writer aboard to pen a script about Henson’s remarkable career.
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This Video Explores How The Muppets And The Dark Crystal Changed The Way We Think About Puppetry
One of the magical things about puppetry are the multitude of ways in which the art form lends itself to drastically different kinds of storytelling. We all grow up being exposed to puppets in one form or another as children through things like Sesame Street and Mister Rogers’ Neighbourhood, but for many, there comes that…
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Taron Egerton, Lisa Henson On Finding Hope In The ‘Melancholy’ Of The Dark Crystal: Age Of Resistance
Netflix’s The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance is a challenge. It’s a prequel set centuries before the events of The Dark Crystal, which means we already know how it ends. Spoilers: Not well. So, how can the audience find hope in a series where we already know our heroes’ fate? According to star Taron Egerton…