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Sunday, October 12, 2014

Billy Crystal signs on to new Henson Company movie Which Witch

 I'm back! This time, I have not-so-useless information! Today, we will be talking about some recent news that we have heard from The Jim Henson Company. Let's start!
 It was a long, long, long, long, long, long, long, LONG time ago. It was ( shivers) 1996. The Muppets now had their own show called Muppets Tonight. On episode 3 of Muppets Tonight, Billy Crystal guest-starred alongside some weird-looking new Muppets!
 We now fast-forward to 2014. The Jim Henson Company now does not make new Muppet movies, but movies involving computer-animation puppetry and they build Creatures for movies that no one really likes but still see because the Creatures were built by " the wonderful Jim Henson!"
 We now fast-forward to October 10th, 2014. Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day has come out with Lisa Henson as producer! So, people are seeing it, even though they probably have no desire to..
  Anyhow, all this is not the point. The Jim Henson Company is planning on making a new animation movie ( which I wouldn't count on being made, because The Jim Henson Company never stays true to their word, which we've learned basically ever since 2005) called Which Witch. Billy Crystal has come on board for this project as a writer, producer, and star. Samantha Sprecher and Lisa Henson are also producing.
 We just found this out a couple of days ago. Lisa Henson told Variety that casting on Which Witch is underway with the company ( so, we could be seeing the voice talents of some Henson company puppeteers, possibly) finalizing negotiations with a digital animation studio and a foreign financier for the project.
 Oh, and don't worry! Crystal won't ruin the film ( some die-hard Henson fans say that comedians sometimes ruin Henson/Muppet films) because he's already done work with animation, performing Mike Wazozki ( I have no idea how to spell it) in Monsters Inc. and Monsters University.
 The movie will be based on a book that was published in 1979.
 Crystal says, " When Brian Henson called me, I didn't know about the book! But, it's a fantastic story, and I've brought in a wonderful writer, Michael Feldman, and we've written a terrific and inventive script. I'll play a character as well, which will be wonderful because he actually has two eyes."
 The only thing I would be careful about is that The Jim Henson Company tends to be a little hold-this-movie-off-for-10-years- kind of a company as they've done with their Fraggle Rock movie that is scheduled to come out sometime in the coming years, as well as the Dark Crystal movie they're planning out, too.
 But, The Henson Company is ( hopefully) going to assure us that the 5 movies they're planning to come out ( this movie, a new Fraggle Rock movie, a new Dark Crystal movie, a new Labyrinth movie, and a new Emmett Otter movie) soon.

 Well, that's all for today! Hope you enjoyed my thoughts on the new movie Which Witch that will be made by The Jim Henson Company! Bye!

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