'Fraggle Rock' Movie Finally On the Way

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.