Once ago, in a time long forgotten, the Muppets were loved and cherished by the young and old alike. Then sadly one day a great tragedy occurred.
The death of their creator Jim Henson. This was a man unlike any other. A man that redefined the puppet into iconic characters, creating breath taking worlds, reinventing special FX creatures for movies an redeveloping the children show so they don't talk down to them. He touched all our hearts in one way or another so much so that even The Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service has Jim Henson’s Fantastic World. We love the Muppets so much that their popularity is so expansive that the Muppet characters have been treated as celebrities in their own right.
Jim Henson was not only the creator of the Muppets, but he was their heart and soul, and this proved to be more true then not when Disney tried to continue making movies each with a box office flop.
- The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992) - $27,281,507
- Muppet Treasure Island (1996) - $34,327,391
- Muppets from Space (1999) - $22,323,612
- The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland (1999) - $11,634,458
Try as they may, we all knew the sad truth. The magic was over...
Or was it?
Flashforward 12 years. The people who grew up loving the Muppets, not as money makers but as themeslves have stepped up to the plate to take the Muppets back to their start. The way Jim Henson would want them to be, or so they say.
John Segel, (the naked guy from Forgetting Sarah Marshall) has signed on to not only co-write but now star in the upcoming The Greatest Muppet Movie of All Time which will be directed by a pretty much unknown, James Bobin. Nothing is really known about the plot except that Segel plays a man on a quest to find and reunite the Muppets.
Will this be a good Muppet movie at last? I can't say. But, what I will say is that, for the first time since the death of Jim Henson, I have hope.
-TuxedoKatsGeorge
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