Posted on 10/20/2006 10:27:34 AM PDT by FreedomNeocon
Jim Henson's "Fraggle Rock" is coming to the big screen.
The 1980s cult hit TV show is being developed by Ahmet Zappa -- younger son of Frank Zappa -- into a full-length live-action musical fantasy starring the classic characters.
"(Zappa) recently created his own fantasy property ('Mighty McFearless'), and we had him in to talk about books and movies," said Lisa Henson, who serves as co-CEO of the Jim Henson Co. with her brother, Brian.
"During that conversation, I had an intuition that he might be a 'Fraggle Rock' fan. He jumped out of his seat when he heard our idea of making 'Fraggle Rock' into a feature-length movie."
Zappa -- a musician and TV personality who will serve as the project's executive producer -- is developing a treatment in which puppet stars Gobo, Wembley, Mokey, Boober and Red will travel from beneath the Rock and venture into the human world for the first time.
"The Fraggles didn't really get into the human world on the series, so we plan to make the movie more about the intersection between the Fraggles and the humans," Lisa Henson said.
Zappa is informally talking to musician friends about writing original songs for the movie. The original Henson puppets will be refurbished and updated for the film, with little expectation of computer-generated enhancements.
A release date has yet to be determined. Lisa Henson plans to hire a screenwriter and director once an initial treatment is completed.
"We're taking the movie as far as we can independently because the company has a big personal investment in how the movie turns out," she said.
"Fraggle Rock" premiered on HBO in 1983 and over five seasons garnered multiple awards and a global fan following. The show was created by Jim Henson as an international co-production and was adapted for each territory to meet the needs of its audience.
Wow! Cool!!!
Dance your cares away, Worry's for another day. Let the music play, Down at Fraggle Rock. Work you cares away, Dancing's for another day. Let the Fraggles play, We're Gobo, Mokey, Wembley, Boober, Red. Dance your cares away, Worry's for another day. Let the music play, Down at Fraggle Rock. Down at Fraggle Rock. Down at Fraggle Rock.
And the endless parade of remakes continue from Hollywood.
... from before HBO and Showtime were strictly competing for the homo audience.
Come to think of it, the Fraggles were a little... nah, nevermind...
THey can go on a search for Uncle Traveling Matt!
I loved the little builder construction guys on the show.
Evolution or Intelligent Design?
I still find myself sometimes humming the Fraggle Rock tune......
Too cool
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They better get moving. The voice of Gobo, Trash Heap, and Pa Gorg is 72!
Sounds like those fraggles were damn hippies!
Yeah, they were. They lived in a commune, basically.
The Doozers!
Ditto.
One of the great things about having kids was being able to watch stuff like Fraggle Rock.
One of my other favs that my kid watched was "3,2,1 Contact".
They didn't have to work for a living either, just who was grew the damn radishes that were the basis of their economy anyway? Was it the Doozers?
It was never explained how Fraggles and Doozers reproduced. The Fraggles were all adolescents (Uncle Matt excepted) and the Doozers seemed to be all male. Only the Gorgs were conventional in that regard.
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