I must be a sick sick man that I come back looking for a spark of news even though I realize it's just never gonna happen? I've heard that Henson plans to announce a formal cancelation as well. I'm not surprised. Looking at all of this from a balanced perspective, I have the beloved first film, I am grateful for it. The canceling of POTDC won't ruin my life or any such nonsense. I will get over this.
Why I am frustrated and angry is because we've been led on this journey by Henson. They have not been forthright or forthcoming, opting for silence upon silence upon silence and even taking offense that we, the fans are frustrated.
I am out of words and yet I still continue to write. Interestingly enough, the Henson facebook page has had a behind the scenes Dark Crystal image as their profile pic for some time. Are they telling us something?
A Dark Crystal movie needs a partner, first and foremost. No one's willing to take a chance on a cult film sequel, other than Disney and Tron... but then again, no one seemed to like it much, and they're furiously trying to clear out unsellable, unwanted Tron toys. But that's what you get when the movie's only cult for being a failure.
On the upside, how many movies that have had scripts written, rewritten, thrown out, restarted, and over and over for a decade actually turn out
good? Look at Little Nemo in Slumberland. That went through so many directors and writers, and the end result wasn't all that good.
Still, the Fraggle Rock movie makes me a little angry. We've had 7 theatrical Muppet movies, 2 theatrical Sesame Street movies... Fraggle Rock never had, yet deserved a movie. This was the rare time where Henson had the partner, the script, and everything was ready to go, but the studio they partnered with went bankrupt, they had to find a third partner, and then things just went south from there. So, instead of Henson screwing it up, their studio partner did. And they wanted to pull a Hoodwinked 2 and get people to write edgy crap, which really made HW2 a bomb and lower quality than it could have been. I'm glad it's not happening now.