Fraggle Rock

Cory Edwards, the writer of mediocre kids/teen movies including Hoodwinked! and Escape From Planet Earth, is spilling some beans about the Fraggle Rock screenplay he's scribing for the The Weinstein Cos. He has completed almost 50-pages of his first draft based on an extensive 17-page studio approved outline, according to SlashFilm.

“[The outline] is the product of many meetings with the Henson and Weinstein folks, and has every little story beat we could think of,” writes Edwards on his blog. “The outline as been picked at, beat up, and shot at for any major problems. So now I have the freedom to lock myself in my laboratory and create, knowing that I am working from a road map that everyone has signed off on.”

And while Edwards is contractually obligated not to reveal any story points, he does mention an action scene, something not common in the original Henson-produced TV show.  read more »

The Weinstein Co. is taking Fraggle Rock to the big screen! Jim Henson's classic series will become a live-action musical, directed by Hoodwinked! director Cory Edwards. The original show premiered on HBO in 1983 and ran five seasons. The Weinsteins, determined to get more cozy and "family-friendly" recently, are probably banking on a blockbuster opening, since the first three seasons were recently released on DVD to big sales. According to Variety, "core characters Gogo, Wembley, Mokey, Boober and Red [will be taken] outside of their home in Fraggle Rock, where they interact with humans, which they think are aliens." There will apparently be puppets and humans in the show but when we first heard this story, we couldn't help but wonder which actors would play the puppets. We think Carrot Top would make a good Red. And former Hobbit Sean Astin might make a good Wembley. That kind of movie might send kids screaming from the theater. (We're totally going to have the theme song stuck in our heads for the rest of the day, by the way. Sigh). More from Variety after the jump.  read more »