We’re both terrified and excited…
1982’s The Dark Crystal is an incredible achievement. It saw Jim Henson, creator of The Muppets, attempt to move away from colourful comedy and create a serious Lord Of The Rings-style fantasy adventure – all with his trademark puppets, and no on-screen humans.
It was creepy and exciting, and like no other film before it. It was not a box office success, but along with its spiritual follow up Labyrinth (which introduced human characters played by Jennifer Connolly and David Bowie), it became a cult favourite with children of the 1980s on VHS and television.
Jim Henson had plans for a sequel, but wasn’t able to make then happen in his lifetime. Now however, we are finally getting more tales of The Dark Crystal – Netflix has announced a 10 part series, to start shooting later this year.
The series, titled Age of Resistance will be set “many years before the events of the film,” and feature state of the art creatures created by Jim Henson’s Creature shop, with the film’s original design Brian Froud on board.
Netflix have released this early teaser…
Clip via Netflix
And here’s the trailer for the original movie…
Clip via shiZelZaZyZel
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