The advances have made the Dark Crystal characters feel all the more lifelike. Dark Crystal promises to be a technological marvel - and also pretty dark.Īs you can see in the above trailer, and Henson-style puppetry has sure come a long way since I was a kid. He was not taken by a goblin king!) Even the get-stuck-in-your-head theme was composed by Daniel Pemberton, who did the music for Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. (Fun fact: Their son, Toby, was the baby from Labyrinth. Original Henson collaborators Brian and Wendy Froud returned to do the visuals for the series.
It's directed by Louis Leterrier, who's known for action movies like The Transporter and The Incredible Hulk. There's plenty of talent behind-the-scenes, too. The rest of the cast is filled out with actors like, oh, I don't know, almost every actor in existence, including Sigourney Weaver, Lena Headey, Awkwafina, Benedict Wong, Natalie Dormer, Theo James, Toby Jones, Mark Hamill, Helena Bonham Carter, Simon Pegg, Alicia Vikander, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Harvey Fierstein, Jason Isaacs, Andy Samberg, and Keegan-Michael Key. Together, they're a trio of Gelflings who head out for a big fantasy adventure. The voice cast includes Taron Egerton, who recently played Elton John in Rocketman Anya Taylor-Joy, who is known for creepy movies like The Witch, Glass, and Thoroughbreds and Nathalie Emmanuel from Game of Thrones.
) But all you have to remember is that the Gelflings are the good guys who look like a cross between beautiful elves and woodland creatures, and the Skeksis are the bad guys who look like vultures and gave me nightmares when I was a kid. If you don't remember or haven't seen the original movie, that all sounds like nonsense.
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The 10-episode series takes place on the planet of Thra, and it follows three Gelflings as they uncover a plot by the Skeksis to amass power, which leads them to start a rebellion. Watch 'The Dark Crystal' on Amazon The series will premiere on August 30, 2019. Now, you can re-connect with your inner pre-goth and introduce her to your children, because Netflix is launching The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance, a prequel series to the 1982 film. Co-directed by Henson and Frank Oz (who was also the performer behind Yoda and Miss Piggy), The Dark Crystal had everything you could possibly want: fantasy creatures, cool puppet designs, a plucky hero and an even pluckier heroine, a positive message, and it was scary as hell. If you were a certain kind of kid growing up in the '80s - say a proto-goth, or the type that would go on to devour all of the Lord of the Rings books and have a ton of blacklight posters hanging in her bedroom - Jim Henson's The Dark Crystal was your jam.
Netflix's The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistancedebuts August 30, 2019.The Age of Resistance featured a talented cast of actors including Taron Egerton, Anya Taylor-Joy, Nathalie Emmanuel, Mark Hamill, Jason Isaacs, Keegan-Michael Key, Simon Pegg, Andy Samberg, Caitriona Balfe, Helena Bonham Carter, Natalie Dormer, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Mark Strong, and Alicia Vikander. The fantasy puppet series was a prequel to the original 1982 Jim Henson film The Dark Crystal, which tells the story about Gelflings who discover that the evil Skeksis want to drain them of their life energy via a dark crystal. We are so grateful to Netflix for trusting us to realize this ambitious series we are deeply proud of our work on Age of Resistance." "We know fans are eager to learn how this chapter of The Dark Crystal saga concludes and we'll look for ways to tell that story in the future. "We can confirm that there will not be an additional season of The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance," executive producer Lisa Henson said in a statement on Monday. Netflix announced on Monday that it's canceling The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance after one season. Fans wanting to return to the planet of Thra will have to find another way there.
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