There was a time when it looked like the new Muppets movie would have company in theaters from a new Fraggle Rock film. Cory Edwards (Hoodwinked) was set to write and direct the film for The Weinstein Company. But Mr. Edwards started to talk about how the Weinsteins wanted something different from what he was…
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It's been almost a year since we heard any news about a Fraggle Rock movie. That goes for the director too. As more and more properties from the Seventies and Eighties get remade, rebooted or reimagined, the idea of a Fraggle Rock movie like a no-brainer. Now Cory Edwards, the director of Hoodwinked who has…
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Even though Christopher Weekes' script The Muppet Man 'won' last year's Black List poll of the best unproduced screenplays in Hollywood, there was every chance it would never make it to the screen. Essentially a biopic of Jim Henson peppered with fantastical scenes starring The Muppets, it would require the involvement somehow of both the…
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Cory Edwards is hard at work writing the screenplay for The Weinstein Co's upcoming Fraggle Rock movie, and has completed almost 50-pages of his first draft based on an extensive 17-page studio approved outline. "[The outline] is the product of many meetings with the Henson and Weinstein folks, and has every little story beat we…
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For some kids it was Sesame Street, for others it was the Smurfs, for my best friend Jon it was Nightmare on Elm Street (which explains... a lot), but for me I grew up watching Fraggle Rock. I've always believed that the Jim Henson created 1983 television show was vastly underrated. Meanwhile the characters have…
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