2011 Comic-Con: Jim Henson's Lost Script

Deadline Comic-Con film correspondent Luke Y Thompson files: In a small-yet-packed room, all the way across the�convention center and up the stairs from Hollywood's big Hall H stuff,�significant bits of film history were coming to light. After Archaia�Entertainment CEO P.J. Bickett warmed up the crowd with a joke about how their�next project could be ?New Kids on the Block meet Fraggle Rock,? it was�revealed that Archaia's partnership with the Jim Henson Company included�material from the Henson vaults, some of which had never been seen before. A�full page movie script written by Henson and longtime collaborator Jerry Juhl in 1968, A TALE OF SAND, has been found and will soon come to light in comic�book form. As for a potential movie form ? that went unmentioned. Also never before seen, and screened, was a short piece of�experimental animation set to the music of Chico Hamilton, all moving collages�of squares, triangles, and lines. It ended with a shot of a beardless Henson�manipulating every little cut-out element with tweezers. While the plot of A TALE OF SAND is somewhat under wraps,�the idea of the panel was to give a sense of the tone by showing some of�Henson's more experimental, Philip K. Dick-like shorts from the same period,�including his stream-of-consciousness Oscar nominee ?Time Piece,? a Bufferin�commercial about how headaches affect fading memories, and a TV short from 1969�called The Cube, in which a man in the middle of a love scene gets interrupted� by a ... Read More »

Source: http://www.deadline.com/2011/07/2011-comic-con-jim-hensons-lost-script/

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