Dance your cares away
Worries for another day
Let the music play
Down at Fraggle Rock!
One of the very first cable series will be spun into a live action musical
film by The Weinstein Company.
Variety indicates that
Jim Henson's
Fraggle Rock
will get the big screen treatment with
Cory Edwards, who directed the shrewd and
undervalued
Hoodwinked!, setting the stage for Gogo, Wembley, Mokey, Boober, and
Red.
In the film, the Fraggles will travel outside of their home in Fraggle Rock,
and they'll be mistaken for aliens by the humans with whom they come into
contact. It's another move into family films for the Weinsteins, which company
mouthpiece Harvey says was a priority for the company when it launched three
years ago. He will produce the film along with two of Jim Henson's children on
behalf of the Jim Henson Company, along with...Ahmet Zappa? What?
Yes, the son of Frank and brother of Dweezil and Moon Unit will be an
executive producer on the Fraggle Rock film, his first credit as a producer.
You have to wonder if the audience is still there for Fraggle Rock (at least
if the family audience is still there). What is more likely is that parents will
drag their kids to the film because the adults want to see it and want their
kids to see it. It's a good move, frankly, even while not being a guaranteed
out-of-the-park shot like, say, a High School Musical movie would be.
But it certainly has loads of potential because the series was very good and
Hoodwinked! was a terrific change of pace.
Tuesday, May 13, 2008 at 8:35AM 
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