Friday, February 10, 2006

The Power of the Dark Crystal

The Jim Henson Company is making a sequel to The Dark Crystal. They're co-producing it with Orphanage Animation Studios who's doing some computer animated parts of the movie, though most of the film will still be puppets. Orphanage is the baby of Genndy Tartakovsky, the guy responsible for Samurai Jack and the Star Wars: Clone Wars cartoons. He's also directing the Dark Crystal sequel.

The sequel's called Power of the Dark Crystal and it's set centuries after the first one. The plot is about a girl who's made of fire and steals a shard of the crystal in order to repower the dying sun.

I'm more of a Labyrinth guy, but The Dark Crystal was a fun movie and a sequel sounds good to me as long as they can recapture the imagination of the original. Unfortunately, that isn't a given with the Henson Company since it's founder passed away, but with Tartakovsky involved, there's much hope.

4 comments:

Grant Gould said...

yeah, i'm pumped about this -- i always loved "dark crystal," though it was very creepy on some level. same with "labyrinth"... loved it, but it was always kinda creepy. must be a fear of puppets.

hold me.

Michael May said...

*puts on Cookie Monster puppet*

Come here...

Jason Copland said...

Labyrinth might have been a good movie but I had to stop watching the second Bowie showed up with this spandex pants.

*Shudder* No thank you *Shudder*

Michael May said...

You remind me of the babe...

LinkWithin

Related Posts with Thumbnails