Jim Henson News!

[tecnowraith]

If you liek like Jim Henson and dark Fantsy, then you will love this. This from Dark Horizon website:

Henson Purchases: "Known primarily for the characters that make up its Muppets franchise, the Jim Henson Co. is gearing up to develop darker fantasy and supernatural fare for older auds by securing film rights to four novels - "The House of the Scorpion", "Tithe: A Modern Faerie Tale", "The Tattooed Map" and "Uncle Wiggly"..."

 

[John Crichton]

The same company that produced Farscape? Sign me up.

 

[Cthulhu's Librarian]

If you liek like Jim Henson and dark Fantsy, then you will love this. This from Dark Horizon website:

Henson Purchases: "Known primarily for the characters that make up its Muppets franchise, the Jim Henson Co. is gearing up to develop darker fantasy and supernatural fare for older auds by securing film rights to four novels - "The House of the Scorpion", "Tithe: A Modern Faerie Tale", "The Tattooed Map" and "Uncle Wiggly"..."

House of the Scorpion is a great book, maybe one of the best books I read last year. Very dark, and very well written. I hope they do a good job with it, and stick pretty close to the original story.

 

[nikolai]

They're also working on MirrorMask: a Labyrinth-sort-of-sequel being made by Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean (two of the people behind Sandman), which I'm really looking forward to.

http://uk.imdb.com/title/tt0366780/

Does anyone know anything about the four novels they've got the film rights to?

 

[thatdarncat]

see, this is what I was hoping to see after they sold the Muppets to Disney!

 

[Cthulhu's Librarian]

Does anyone know anything about the four novels they've got the film rights to?

See my post, right above your post.

 

[Ferret]

But no more mupets?

Ah well, it sounds good.

 

[saduff]

Henson stuff has always been good.

 

[@Mjolnir]

Jim Henson

I love the old Muppet show, I grew up watching those zany critters! Its so kewl to hear they are coming up with some deeper material. One thing, though, Dark Crystal still ROCKS!

 

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

Very interesting. I'll have to keep up with this.