As found over at People @ Parks… After years of badgering wandering kids on Sesame Street, Big Bird and Snuffy had enough. Thanks to a connection they had through Jim Henson’s workshop (trust us, it’s like six degrees of separation from Kevin Bacon) they got a hold of a phantom zone projector. With the projector…
Last week, we told you that director Guillermo del Toro wanted to produce a new version of Pinocchio. Today, Variety adds details and says the Jim Henson Co. will be on board for the darker interpretation of the classic Italian children’s tale. The film will be produced by JHC presidents Brian Henson and Lisa Henson…
In an act that almost feels like it should have the name "Joss Whedon" attached to it, the Jim Henson Company has announced the development of a new film project called The Happytime Murders. This original film noir murder mystery will fall under the company’s Henson Alternative banner, a division that develops projects not intended…
Seventy-one years ago today, James Maury Henson was born in Greenville, Mississippi. Over his fifty-three years, Jim Henson left a legacy that touched almost every child in two generations through his creations, from Kermit to Yoda to the Fraggles to Bear and the Big Blue House. The sheer amount of output from Henson is staggering,…
Twenty-five years ago, the late, great Jim Henson, creator of the Muppets, tried to beat Lord of the Rings to the cinematic punch by co-writing and co-directing a similar and derivative, yet pioneering and daring, “adult” fantasy. Four years after that, approximately twenty-one years ago, he tried to combine Star Wars, Alice in Wonderland, The…
Seventeen years ago today, it got just a bit less easy to be green. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLnyK7DG0CA Here’s to you, good fellow. (Hat tip: Lisa Sullivan.)
