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Net­flix is mak­ing a Dark Crys­tal pre­quel series

20 May 2017

Words by Little White Lies

The prophe­cy didn’t say any­thing about this!

Jim Henson’s beloved pup­pet-based fan­ta­sy epic from 1982, The Dark Crys­tal, is set for a mod­ern retelling cour­tesy of nos­tal­gia-min­ing stream­ing behe­moth Net­flix and direc­tor Louis Leterrier.

But before you hurl your laptop/​portable device against the near­est wall, you might be inter­est­ed to learn that the intend­ed 10-episode pre­quel series – sub­ti­tled Age of Resis­tance – is being pro­duced by the Jim Hen­son Com­pa­ny, whose CEO Lisa Hen­son has spo­ken of Netflix’s ​“deep respect for my father’s orig­i­nal work and the many peo­ple it inspired.”

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She tells Vari­ety that Net­flix are ​“the per­fect part­ners to cre­ate this next epic chap­ter in The Dark Crys­tal sto­ry for new fans and the loy­al fans who have wait­ed so long for more adven­tures from this world.” The above teas­er cer­tain­ly seems to back that up, using archive footage of Hen­son him­self to remind us of the amaz­ing scope of the orig­i­nal production.

The show will return fans to the mys­ti­cal world of Thra, as we join an intre­pid Gelfling trio on a great quest to dis­cov­er the ter­ri­ble secret behind the cru­el Skek­sis’ power.

Ear­li­er in 2017 it was announced that an update of anoth­er clas­sic Hen­son fable, Labyrinth, is also in the works. We await both projects with equal mea­sures of excite­ment and trep­i­da­tion – in this case large­ly due to the prospect of yet more night­mares fea­tur­ing our most feared child­hood foe.

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