Harvey Weinstein Invades Fraggle Rock
The twenty-five year long wait for a Fraggle Rock movie has come to an end...at the belly of Harvey Weinstein.
From Variety --
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.
“One of our main priorities when we first launched the Weinstein Company was to feature a broad range of family-friendly franchises like ‘Fraggle Rock,’ Harvey Weinstein said.
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.
According to the article, the Fraggle movie 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.
Doozers, please—we need you. It sounds like they’re going to need all the help they can get with this project! I have a badddddd feeling about this.
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