Fraggle Rock Movie Gets Screenwriters (Hollywood Reporter)

Wow! Im so outta my league here! LOL. All this talk of directors and movie teams...all I know is what i saw on tv as a kid and what re-runs are on tv for my kids to watch! I hope they do make a movie though!

I read a year or so ago that the movie was gonna be about The Fraggles leaving Fraggle Rock and going into Outer Space with Uncle Traveling Matt. I like this idea. What do you guys think of it?????

I think it's good there are 2 things I should ask!
1. How would this idea will work?
2 Who is Going do Gobo now for the movie?

1. Who Knows
2. Possibly Eric Jacobson

Eric?
You mean the one who dose Piggy, Grover and Bert?

Yeah, probably Matt.

I think so too but I hope he'll gets the Gobo flaver!
Because Matt's Robin dosen't sound like the Robin I know.

You recognize Jerry's Robin then, huh?

I've had a few years to think and I've come to the mind I'd rather have a movie of any Fraggle sort to bring attention back to Fraggle Rock (and buying copies of the classic series on DVD) than none at all for fear of it not being 'perfect' .

Well maybe but my ears don't lie at all!

so im guessing they lost focus for this movie again. unless on the fraggle's 30th they release a 30 min special for the occasion but i doubt that would happen with all of the preformers in london for TM...A

This movie's never going to happen because only Henson wants to see it get made. I think Legacy or whoever bought the rights to the film bought the rights to it to sit on it. That does happen. Studios who buy up rights just to sit on them.

Look at how sad their DTV release of Sid the Science Kid the Movie was.

yeah i was thinking that but i wish they would make some like 30th primetime special but i doubt thats gonna happen

They might make a NASA space video soon from what I've heard. I certainly hope it captures that "Fraggle flavour"!

I really feel like Henson is trying so hard to get the Fraggle franchise started again- but this movie is really difficult! When will the stars be aligned!?

I'm hoping for at least Dave Goelz, Karen Prell and John Tartaglia.

As much as I am for closing/locking this thread until we get further updates...

Henson totally wants Fraggle Rock to be their standout franchise. You can't blame them. After the EMTV sale and eventual sale back to Disney, FR is the only original Muppet property that Henson owns. Disney has the Muppets, Sesame Workshop has the Muppets from their show. The problem is the first studio completely screwed Henson over, and this studio hasn't revealed anything else either. The Muppets was a modest success. It made back double the cost, and was the second highest grossing Muppet film. That should have been a sign, but it wasn't. There's going to be a Doozer preschool series, just not in the US for some reason. So, the next best thing is merchandising.

We all hope something is going on with this film. We haven't heard anything for an additional year or two since the announcement the project changed hands.

However, for now I think we should all be very excited that the Fraggles are going into space!

They initially put the cart before the horse by releasing too much information to the press. I'm okay with the silence now. Henson is obviously trying to launch the Fraggle brand. They've had two T-shirt contests, there's more merchandise, the Fraggles are making public appearances, they're popping up on the Hub and that Doozer program is finally going to be a reality. All of this lays the groundwork for a Fraggle Movie. We'll just have to be patient. It could shoot this year. It could take five years to get things together. The Fraggles aren't getting any older. The people who play them are and that's a concern. And I'm sure that Henson would want to keep the original crew together.

Well, most of them are still going so let's hope we get the Fraggles back together really soon! Can't wait to see the NASA Fraggle videos!