Oh God No --- DARK CRYSTAL SEQUEL is coming!

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Power of the Dark Crystal, expected release Spring 2008

directed by the guy from Samurai Jack

Let's hope it has the creepy one-eyed muppet!

― kingfish du lac (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 7 July 2006 03:59 (nineteen years ago)

they should call it the DARK SEQSTEL.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 7 July 2006 04:01 (nineteen years ago)

honestly dark crystal sucked anyway.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 7 July 2006 04:01 (nineteen years ago)

I have never seen the original film! Something about it freaked me out when I was a kid and I left the theater without watching it. I actually own a copy of the original but still haven't got the courage to watch (yes, I'm a phobic, nightmare-prone idiot at times).

It seems a little odd to make a sequel after all these years.

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Friday, 7 July 2006 04:05 (nineteen years ago)

I saw the original in the cinema when it came out! Man, how many years ago would that have been? I dont think Ive seen it since and I cant remember anything about it now. There were like, muppety elf girl and boy characters. Thats all I remember.

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 7 July 2006 04:06 (nineteen years ago)

its cool to play on the screen at a club behind the band

― Cor-Ray (chaki), Friday, 7 July 2006 04:07 (nineteen years ago)

I just bought the first one on DVD! I liked it, but Labyrinth and the Muppet movies are better. Did anyone see Mirrormask? Should I get that?

― Marmot 4-Tay: forth-coming, my child. forth-coming most righteous champion (mar, Friday, 7 July 2006 04:10 (nineteen years ago)

If this is bad, there's going to be a fight. Me, vs everyone involved.

― edward o (edwardo), Friday, 7 July 2006 04:47 (nineteen years ago)

I think it's gonna be CGI not muppets, right? At least that's how I heard Mirrormask was.
The only thing that doesn't come off well in the original to me now is the facial movements of the Gelflings. Still really impressive for 1982 though, and I never even noticed it the one or two times I saw it as a kid.

― Marmot 4-Tay: forth-coming, my child. forth-coming most righteous champion (mar, Friday, 7 July 2006 04:54 (nineteen years ago)

honestly dark crystal sucked anyway.

Slocki you are dead to me.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 7 July 2006 11:12 (nineteen years ago)

This could be good.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 7 July 2006 11:23 (nineteen years ago)

CGI Muppets? Errr, this sounds worrying.

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Friday, 7 July 2006 11:28 (nineteen years ago)

I've no idea if new Dark Crystal is cgi or not. I do think that Genndy Tartakovsky is an animation genius though.
I have, however, seen Mirrormask and it has no muppets at all, it's humans in a cgi generated dreamworld (oh and a couple of cgi created characters, but they're not at all muppet like). Mirrormask is an enjoyable, if rather slight story, with some really nice art direction.

― Greig (treefell), Friday, 7 July 2006 11:53 (nineteen years ago)

Dark Crystal didn't exactly suck, but one's impression of it now vs seeing it on HBO a buncha times from ages 6-8 is very different.

Watching it again a few years ago, a few of us agreed that you really get the vibe that art/production design was far more important to the filmmakers than story, character, dialogue, etc.

Of course, when they tried to do a muppet fantasy flick again 4 years later, they got exponentially better results.

― kingfish du lac (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 7 July 2006 14:46 (nineteen years ago)

I recently watched the Dark Crystal, and I loved it. I hope they don't rely to strongly on the CGI. Muppet, please.

― Fluffy Bear, Grand Admiral of the Hastings Thread Navy (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainb, Friday, 7 July 2006 14:51 (nineteen years ago)

Mirrormask is 1000 times worse than Dark Crystal. (even if you like Dark Crystal)

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 7 July 2006 14:54 (nineteen years ago)

I love the original - particularly the Skeksis and the Mystics.

― Ben Mott (Ben Mott), Friday, 7 July 2006 14:57 (nineteen years ago)

Still, how many flicks have a big-ass orrery whirring around?

― kingfish du lac (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 7 July 2006 15:00 (nineteen years ago)

Labyrinth vs. Dark Crystal, storywise, might be a bit unfair, as Dark Crystal was like a Jim Henson vanity project (albeit still one of my favorite films ever), whereas Labyrinth's screenplay was written by Monty Python's Terry Jones. I think.

Also, Mirrormask is totally what Sky Captain would've been if it wasn't boring.

― choinklate (nickalicious), Friday, 7 July 2006 15:03 (nineteen years ago)

Heartening: all original voice talent (Chamberlain's whimper!)
Disheartening: the precise reason I loved it was BECAUSE it was totally a Jim Henson freakout, without Jim, I am sad

― choinklate (nickalicious), Friday, 7 July 2006 15:05 (nineteen years ago)

and then of course later you had John Hurt doing the Jim Henson's Storyteller series(w/ son-of-Henson-voiced dog).

― kingfish du lac (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 7 July 2006 15:07 (nineteen years ago)

Dark Crystal vs. Return to Oz

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 7 July 2006 15:09 (nineteen years ago)

Oh I was just gonna say it better have Trevor Jones' scoring it (as the OG score was MAGNIFICENT), and it DOES! Also, the film poster (which I didn't look at until now) is very interesting...seeing Genndy Tartakovsy's name attached, I assumed it would be cartoon animated.

I'm still not sure if I'm happy about this, but I am like PAINFULLY intrigued.

― choinklate (nickalicious), Friday, 7 July 2006 15:10 (nineteen years ago)

OMG they should get Mary-Kate or Ashley Olsen to play Keira!

― choinklate (nickalicious), Friday, 7 July 2006 15:12 (nineteen years ago)

IMDB lists the writing credits for Labyrinth as Dennis Lee & Jim Henson doing the story, with Terry Jones doing an early draft of the script and Elaine May with some uncredited work.

― kingfish du lac (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 7 July 2006 15:16 (nineteen years ago)

I had a crush on that flute playing muppet elf

― spectra (spectra), Sunday, 9 July 2006 02:46 (nineteen years ago)

i have no idea what Dark Crystal is, as far as I can remember.

― pleased to mitya (mitya), Sunday, 9 July 2006 02:55 (nineteen years ago)

OUT.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 9 July 2006 04:44 (nineteen years ago)

I was just packing my books and found my copy of Brian Froud's "The World of the Dark Crystal" - I haven't seen the movie since it was first out, but I'd forgotten what an impact that book had on me at the time in terms of drawing, stories, etc.. I think I'd taken more from Brian Froud (and Alan Garner) than from J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis and George Lucas and Gene Roddenberry put together.

― Ricki Belloni (Pangolino 3), Sunday, 9 July 2006 05:36 (nineteen years ago)

haha what if they made a sequel to return to oz? what the hell would that be like?

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Sunday, 9 July 2006 05:44 (nineteen years ago)

the hell like Ozma Of Oz?

― kit brash (kit brash), Sunday, 9 July 2006 08:37 (nineteen years ago)

The Wiz II: Scarecrow Needs a New Face

― Hotman Paris Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Sunday, 9 July 2006 10:13 (nineteen years ago)

Because the Cowardly Lion turned the last one into a heart.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Sunday, 9 July 2006 10:20 (nineteen years ago)

"Let's send the Munchkins O-U-T-S-I-D-E so we can fuck."

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 9 July 2006 11:40 (nineteen years ago)

Wasn't Return to Oz drawn from elements of The Land Of Oz and Ozma Of Oz? What kind of movie would Dorothy And The Wizard In Oz and/or The Road To Oz make? Anyone here read that far? I've only read the original book...

― Marmot 4-Tay: You are beautiful, and you are alone. (marmotwolof), Sunday, 9 July 2006 23:37 (nineteen years ago)

I was 8 when that movie came out. Thanks to my father's genes, I had wing-nut ears that stuck out sideways through my thin, fine, white-blonde hair. Thanks to that fucking movie, all the kids at school from Year 3 right through to Year 6 would point at me and yell "DARK CRYSTAL!" and fall about laughing. It took years to shake off that tag.

― Hard like armour (Hard like armour), Monday, 10 July 2006 00:00 (nineteen years ago)

...I had to get a perm to cover my ears.

― Hard like armour (Hard like armour), Monday, 10 July 2006 05:48 (nineteen years ago)

Was just stirring shit above. I haven't seen Return To Oz, but from promo photos I saw at the time, it looked like they jacked shit from loads of the books, esp. if it had toy potential - I'm sure Tik-Tok was in there. (I've read 13 out of the 14, but not since I was about 11.)

― kit brash (kit brash), Monday, 10 July 2006 09:20 (nineteen years ago)

i was obsessed with the dark crystal when i was a wee girl. hadn't thought about it for years and then on the eve of my 21st birthday (it was actually just after midnight, 12:01 or something) i went into a bar in soho with friends to order my first legal drink, and they were playing the dark crystal on the televisions in the bar. it was magical

― archipelago (archipelago), Monday, 10 July 2006 16:45 (nineteen years ago)

uh, in case you were wondering.

― archipelago (archipelago), Monday, 10 July 2006 16:45 (nineteen years ago)

Dark Crystal apreciation is a matter of taste. If you love it, you have the "good" variety.

(random, multiple xpost)

― Fluffy Bear, Grand Admiral of the Hastings Thread Navy (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainb, Monday, 10 July 2006 16:50 (nineteen years ago)

fluffy OTM

dark crytal RULEZ!

― archipelago (archipelago), Monday, 10 July 2006 16:57 (nineteen years ago)

Slocki still hasn't explained himself.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 10 July 2006 16:59 (nineteen years ago)

It really does seem written for a very specific audience.

― choinklate (nickalicious), Monday, 10 July 2006 17:03 (nineteen years ago)

dark crystal was awesome for me 5 years ago lol or more
but maybe there trying to hard for another one

― panda may (panda_may), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 02:21 (nineteen years ago)

four years pass...

Just watched the original for the first time. It does lack a certain pizazz but the skeksis are wonderful. And it seems the sequel's back on track, IN 3D natch:

http://ramascreen.com/daybreakers-directors-to-helm-a-3d-dark-crystal-sequel/

― ledge, Monday, 20 September 2010 21:17 (fourteen years ago)

when I saw this in the theater as a kid, the film melted right at the climax. someone yelled out "it's the great conjunction!"

film doesn't really bear up on repeated viewing. it is VERRRRY slow, and most of the non-skeksi scenes seriously drag

― Dr. Lol Evans (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 20 September 2010 21:33 (fourteen years ago)

even the skeksi scenes are kinda plodding and drawn-out (grossout dinner goes on forever), but get by on cool monster points. not a great movie, but i dig the aura of post-hippie (forced?) naivete & whimsy. better delivered in the muppet movie, but whatever...

― having taken an actual journalism class (contenderizer), Monday, 20 September 2010 21:57 (fourteen years ago)

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