Now here's some news that has no business on my page, buy hey, it's news. Fraggle Rock is going to become a major motion picture. Don't believe me? Look.
Hehe! Fooled you sucka! Here's the real deal.
The Weinstein Co. will turn the Jim Henson series "Fraggle Rock" into a live-action musical feature.
Cory Edwards, who directed the animated "Hoodwinked!" for TWC, will helm the picture and write the screenplay. The Jim Henson Co. will produce and TWC will distribute.
Just like the series, the film will be populated by a mix of human characters and Fraggle Rock puppets. TWC co-chair Harvey Weinstein, who has been steering his company more aggressively into the family film arena, made the marriage with Lisa Henson, who runs JHC with her co-CEO brother, Brian Henson.
Ahmet Zappa will be exec producer with Brian Inerfeld.
Pic will take the core characters Gogo, Wembley, Mokey, Boober and Red outside of their home in Fraggle Rock, where they interact with humans, which they think are aliens. The show premiered on HBO in 1983, ran five seasons and was broadcast in more than 80 countries. It posted strong sales recently when the first three seasons were released on DVD.
The deal furthers the relationship between TWC and the "Hoodwinked!" creative team. Edwards is reteaming with "Hoodwinked!" co-writer Tony Leech on the animated alien adventure "Escape From Planet Earth," on which Leech is making his directing debut.
Edwards is separately developing a live-action feature adaptation of Cedar Fair's Halloween Haunt franchise, designed to be shot in 3-D by Kerner Optical and produced by Davis Entertainment, Dave Phillips and Tracey Edmonds. That pic is looking for a backer.
"One of our main priorities when we first launched the Weinstein Company was to feature a broad range of family-friendly franchises like 'Fraggle Rock,' " Weinstein said.
Well there's something for all you old bastards to look forward to. *Spill Crew* As for me, the only singing muppets that kick ass in my book are these guys!
I read the revised script that was worked over by Quentin Tarentino... and it is hot!
It is truly a story of pathos and intricate plotlines interwoven to bring the characters of Fraggle Rock into a contemporary setting that todays kids can relate to...
I am down with seeing the doozer stick addicted wide eyed muppet junkies of Fraggle Rock™ dealing with life on the streets when the economy takes a turn for the worst, and the beet subsidies that the government had to pull made the the Gorg farmers go out of business. With no beets to use in construction projects, the doozers have to emigrate to "outer space" in order to find work in kitchens and landscaping companies... Then the Fraggles have to find new ways to get their fix, and turn to adulterated "bathtub" doozer sticks made with cleaning chemicals and cold medicine in trailers on the outskirts of Fraggle Rock. After a few "lab" explosions, the fraggles are left with nothing, and in a last ditch effort to get tweaked, start freebasing a mash liquor made out of the decaying compost mass that is Marjory the trash heap. With her dying breath she prophesies the destruction of Fraggle Rock, and the death of all of it's inhabitants, save one, that will venture into outer space and be caught by "silly creatures" and kept alive for horrendous experiments and product testing... she then screams out "MAY YOU ALL BURN IN HELL!"
I don't want to give the rest away, but suffice to say there are lot of drawn out dialogues between Mokey and Red about completely ridiculous shit that no women would actually talk about in real life...
Fuck the LOTR trilogy. Peter Jackson's crowning achievement will ALWAYS be Meet the Feebles.
Comment by Sean Kennedy on May 13, 2008 at 12:27pm
I really hope they don't turn Fraggle Rock into a CG abomination. I also own Meet the Feebles. I watch it once a year with one of the friends that say "It can't be nearly that wired." Every single one of them change their mind to "What did the muppets do to Peter Jackson as a child"
Comment by Mr. Whiplash on May 13, 2008 at 12:11pm
Meet the Feebles is fun, but nothing compares to the nostalgia of Fraggle Rock; if you were a kid in the 80s, they were the shiznit.
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