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When the panel was over, Lisa and Louis spoke all of eleven minutes, and seemed to be unsure what to actually say.

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Netflix heavily promoted their Age of Resistance panel at the NYC Comic Con which featured series director Louis Letterrier and Lisa Henson. It’s been the decades long dedication to the film by the fans that has brought us to the now year long wait until the series premieres.

What has to be generally admitted and remembered by both the Jim Henson Company and Netflix is the fans are the reason Dark Crystal found an other (and profitable) life on home video. The only reason the (Netflix) show exists is because of the fans, whether they're artists, filmmakers or even involved on official Dark Crystal material with Age of Resistance, they've made it happen, and I'm honored to be a part of The Dark Crystal community with my podcast' For fans of the collaboration with The Jim Henson Company and Netflix to bring the world of Thra to life. The announcement was unexpected and welcome. 'It's incredible, Netflix is taking a very big gamble on The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance. The announcement video for Age of Resistance features elements from the video that The Jim Henson Company pitched.įor the fans of the original Dark Crystal film, Age of Resistance won’t be just another Netflix series. Initially pitched as an computer generated animated prequel series, Netflix insisted that The Henson Company re-pitch the film with traditional puppets. “You can tell another story in the same world, but the story itself is complete.” Jim Henson went on record stating that “The story itself doesn’t lend itself to a sequel,” ( said Henson matter-of-factly). Aptly titled The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance, the series will tell the events that would eventually lead up to the final journey as played out by the characters in the 1982 original. In May of 2017, Netflix announced a ten hour prequel series to Henson’s The Dark Crystal.

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Philip Mitchell, founder and host of Trial By Stone: The Dark Crystal Podcast. When the author quest was announced with plans of having Dark Crystal novels, there was some hope of big things to come, though we as fans never imagined what would come on May 2017” “It was very surprising seeing the engagement from The Jim Henson Company and fans of The Dark Crystal with the launch of and having contests with writing, drawing and even film making as well. In the intervening years the Henson company, dutifully managed by Jim’s children would begin an ongoing celebration of The Dark Crystal, starting with fan films and writing contests.įor some leaders in the small but loyal Dark Crystal fanbase, the consistent engagement of fans by the Henson company seemed to suggest something else was happening. The controversial sequel would spend nearly 13 years in development hell before releasing as a comic series in 2017. Power of The Dark Crystal would never see the light of day as a film, despite onslaught the cult fan base of the original film would become over the news. Fifteen years after Jim’s death, would come the announcement of Power of The Dark Crystal, a new sequel to the original film, utilizing puppetry and state-of-the-art digital imagery to bring the world of Thra back to life. With Henson’s death, original Henson films and projects would eventually slow down, leading to the subsequent selling of The Muppets to Disney for safekeeping. It would go on to garner a cult following being screened on VHS, and DVD in the years after it’s debut.ġ990 saw the death of Muppet mastermind and legend Jim Henson at the very young age of 53. When the film premiered in 1982, (a watershed year for many films) it did so quietly, to financial disappointment. The Dark Crystal, takes place in a mythical world, where no humans live, as two elf-like creatures called Gelflings set out on a quest to heal their land from a growing darkness. They know Jim Henson and the Muppets and Labyrinth, but when it comes to The Dark Crystal, the film that Jim Henson himself called “ the one that I’m the most proud of” they draw a long blank. Surprisingly a lot of people won’t even know what you’re talking about. “All puppets, no humans, fantasy, kind of like Lord of the Rings.”

“Yeah, with Bowie right?” is the typical response until you start describing The Dark Crystal, Most people think they’ve seen Jim Henson’s 1982 masterpiece The Dark Crystal when you ask them about it.