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From muppetcentral.com...

Varity reported that The Jim Henson Company is planning on making a sequel to the 1982 fantasy classic "The Dark Crystal".

The film, which is titled "The Power of the Dark Crystal", has been written by David Odell (The Dark Crystal, The Muppet Show) and Annette Duffy. No director is yet attached to the film which will start shooting this fall and is planned for a 2007 release. The film will combine live-action animatronic characters with CG animation. Like its predecessor, the film hopes to push the boundaries of puppetry, special effects, and visual story-telling.

The story for the film is set many years after the original movie. The first film's original heroes Jen and Kira are now king and queen, and must fight to save their kingdom when the crystal is once again split.

Any further cast and crew announcements have not been made. But it has been cited that The Jim Henson Company wants to involve many of the people who worked on the original movie (such as Brian Froud and Frank Oz). The official word on the cast & crew should be made later this year once production picks up on the project.

The Jim Henson Company had tossed around ideas of a sequel (or prequel) over the years. In the late '90s there was strong support from many Henson executives, led by Brian Henson, to make a prequel to the 1982 film. Sadly the plans never materialized; but now that the company is "Muppet-free" they want to work to bring back many of their existing productions and franchises.

The film has built a strong cult-following since 1982 and mixed with the new surge in "fantasy world" films in the recent years, Henson feels that now is the perfect time to bring back the world of the Dark Crystal.

The company is also working on developing animated series, interactive games and other related media as well.

Awesome news.

Now if they use "SYL - Skeksis" in the movie, that'd be awesome

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!

I showed "The Dark Crystal" to my daughters. It moves much slower than movies these days. They got bored midway through. Bummed me out.

This makes me very happy, especially as a very cool pre-quel is being released in Manga form (and a manga sequel to the Labyrinth)

isnt this devs favourite movie?

Yup! (check his avatar)

Could be interesting, seeing the advent of awesome CGI has made so much possible. I always get a bit anxious hearing aboot sequels to great films though...

Can anybody tell me more about those manga versions? Sounds cool!
And a sequel to the Dark Crystal would definitely rock!

the only people who could make sequels that i can trust are the folks @ jim henson's!

and man, Dev must have a real boner reading this!

I feel so left behind, not seeing the original movie before..

but I will, you can count on it


And ON topic, cool, a sequel!!

Pisshead wrote::sad: I feel so left behind, not seeing the original movie before..

me neither, but hey ill rent it soon

I fear a bad sequel. The original is so badass!

So its being filmed in live action? I thought they switched to an anime feature? There was some rumor awhile back saying it was being developed for Cartoon Network's Toonami block.

that sounds cool. I really like that movie a lot. That could be really amazing! (if they don't mess it up).