Fraggle Rock Movie!
 

I was a huge fan of this show as a kid, cant wait to see this!

LOS ANGELES, California (Hollywood Reporter) -- Jim Henson's "Fraggle Rock" is coming to the big screen.

The 1980s cult hit TV show is being developed by Ahmet Zappa -- younger son of Frank Zappa -- into a full-length live-action musical fantasy starring the classic characters.

"(Zappa) recently created his own fantasy property ('Mighty McFearless'), and we had him in to talk about books and movies," said Lisa Henson, who serves as co-CEO of the Jim Henson Co. with her brother, Brian.

"During that conversation, I had an intuition that he might be a 'Fraggle Rock' fan. He jumped out of his seat when he heard our idea of making 'Fraggle Rock' into a feature-length movie."

Zappa -- a musician and TV personality who will serve as the project's executive producer -- is developing a treatment in which puppet stars Gobo, Wembley, Mokey, Boober and Red will travel from beneath the Rock and venture into the human world for the first time.

"The Fraggles didn't really get into the human world on the series, so we plan to make the movie more about the intersection between the Fraggles and the humans," Lisa Henson said.

Zappa is informally talking to musician friends about writing original songs for the movie. The original Henson puppets will be refurbished and updated for the film, with little expectation of computer-generated enhancements.

A release date has yet to be determined. Lisa Henson plans to hire a screenwriter and director once an initial treatment is completed.

"We're taking the movie as far as we can independently because the company has a big personal investment in how the movie turns out," she said.

"Fraggle Rock" premiered on HBO in 1983 and over five seasons garnered multiple awards and a global fan following. The show was created by Jim Henson as an international co-production and was adapted for each territory to meet the needs of its audience.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/Movi...eut/index.html

Ditto :D

Ditto for me too! :D I like the green things that made construction plastic, and then the giants ate it all.

The original Henson puppets will be refurbished and updated for the film, with little expectation of computer-generated enhancements.

EXCELLENT. Puppetry kicks ass; CGI is wiggedy wack.

Hurray! I hope they do one of my fav shows as a kid justice.

OMG!! I LOVED FR. "Laugh your cares away. . .Down at Fraggle Rock":D

During recruitment...we had to play this sort of Bingo game where you have to get signatures for the things listed.

One of the bingo squares referred to Fraggle Rock, and like 80% of the people in the room DID NOT know what Fraggle Rock was... I about died.

I LOOOOOVE Fraggle Rock. YAY! for the movie.

"down at fraggle rock"
 

yeah!!!:D

In honor of this wonderous occasion.....I'm now playing the theme song on my iTunes!! Yea!

Hopefully they have Sprocket!

DITTO:D

I heard about this the other day -- how great! I loved this show. When is it coming out?

There's no release date yet.

Love the "Doozers!" :)

this makes me smile

Sweet!!! :)