They're Making A Fraggle Rock Movie!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[THUNDER HANDS]

http://www.variety.com/VR1117985529.html

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 Gobo, 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.


:woohoo:
woohoo!!!

[fizzgig]

1. i am going to be cautiously optimistic about this

fraggle rock is one of my absolute favorite shows from my childhood, but i am cringing a bit thinking about what they could do to it

[laylah]

3. You come visit your

MaMa and she will take you by your widdle hand to the movie, and even buy the popcorn :hug:

[fizzgig]

5. awwww

:hug:

[Solon]

6. Could be worse, Jerry Bruckheimer could be producing it...

Hell I'm just glad they are sticking with live action with muppets, rather than something like CGI or some shit, that would ruin the show. Now, the only major things we have to worry about is the story, acting, and voices.

[TZ]

7. Thats a character from Fraggle Rock in your sig line, right?

After seeing what they did to one of my favorite cartoons from childhood in "Speed Racer" I would worry too...

[fizzgig]

9. fizzgig is actually from the dark crystal

but that was a jim henson movie, too, so i can see where you're coming from

[mainegreen]

10. They will destroy it.

They always do.

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

2. That was my damn show ! I loved it !

I loved FRAGGLE ROCK.

I still get hyped watching this:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=TSDeoO-j3G0

[FloridaJudy]

4. I *love* Fraggle Rock!

I watched it religiously with my son when he was a toddler. It's hard to see, but that's Red Fraggle on top of the cake at my son's fourth birthday party, the year we lived in Yugoslavia.



Everybody used to say I reminded them of "Mokey". And now I even have the gray hair as well.

[Blue_Tires]

8. wow....

wasn't that movie supposed to come out like 10-12 years ago???

great memories as a kid in the early 80s...

[Elidor]

11. Oh, great, now I have that song in my head

They are mighty cute, though.

[realisticphish]

12. It will suck

I loved fraggle rock, but look at what they did with the most recent muppet movie

[philosophie_en_rose]

13. *clap* *clap* *clap*

It's going to be terrible, but I miss Fraggle Rock.

[khashka]

14. They'll fuck it up

Hollywood always does. And I LOVED Fraggle Rock.

Khash.