The Dark Crystal : The Age Of Resistance – the series Netflix gives its new !

Cinema 5 December, 2017

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So here, watch out everyone. You had already spoken, we is rather very hot, very hot for the return of the Dark Crystal, but it has to be well done. It is our childhood that is in the game what.

The Dark Crystal. The name alone and the memories rush back. For those to whom it says nothing, it is a work of dark fantasy, very, very worship of the early 80s, made completely with characters into puppets by the team of Jim Henson (creator of the puppets, especially that of the Muppet Show) and Frank Oz (marionettiste of note, he was particularly busy and doubled Yoda).

The work we narrait the story of Jen, one of the only survivors of the Gelfings, people soft and innocent, undergoing a real genocide committed by the terrifying Skeksis, so of crows humanoids. In his flight, Jen was given the heavy task of healing the Dark Crystal held by the Skeksis before the next alignment of the three suns of the planet, otherwise, these beings corrupt access to immortality and régneraient forever on the planet Thra.

The villains Skeksis

Fierce adventure story to the art direction impeccable, uncompromising despite the age of the target audience at the time, and slightly fallen into oblivion, the film is about to undergo a ressucitation necromantic thanks to the powers of the “nostalgia” of the 80’s and Netflix.

Things go fast because after the trailer of may, we learn that the series is part in filming this week. Owl ? At first glance, it on a good basis, since we also know that the puppets will be back in the series commissioned by Netflix, which does not, therefore, the all-digital (did someone say George Lucas ?).

Even better, one also learns that the new puppets are built at the Jim Henson’s Creature Shop, the box of creation of visual effects, founded by Jim Henson himself. If you want a recent example of their work, go back and Max Maximonstres, already because it is super good and because you then can use to judge the quality is fairly crazy puppets. In any case, we understand that entrusting this task to this particular company and demonstrates the commitment to respect the atmosphere of the original film. The series will not be a stupid remake of it : it will be a prequel to the film entitled the Dark Crystal: The Age Of Resistance and consisting of 10 one-hour episodes. And yet, something we crumple…

Photo shooting of the time with the puppets of Jen and Kira, the main characters.

And to tell the truth, not least : as a reminder, the realization of this series has been entrusted to Louis Leterrier, director (or responsible, depending on circumstances) masterpieces of poetic sensibility as The Carrier, Elusive, The incredible Hulk or Clash Of The Titans (the no huh, of course, not the well). Oriented film nag or pseudo-intelligent, it has a little of evil to understand this choice. Perhaps this is the MA-GNI-FIC and CHA-TO-CRITICAL artistic director of Clash Of the Titans that has guided the choice of Netflix to adapt a universe, whose main characteristic is precisely his artistic direction. No one knows.

The god Zeus chattoie thanks to Louis Letterier. Too kind.

Anyway there’s nothing we can do, so let’s hope that Louis Leterrier will prove to the height, you never know. In the meantime, try to keep courage in front of the trailer quite promising distributed in may. The series the Dark Crystal : The Age Of Resistance likely to be released in 2019.

The Dark Crystal Age of Resistance – Teaser VO by Ecranlarge