#JIM HENSON DARK CRYSTAL SERIES#
They combined the animated TV series being developed at the Hub-Hasbro’s now-defunct children’s network-with the feature Leterrier would now direct. But the relationship would end up being rocky, and after three years, Henson’s five children bought back their father’s company.
“At that moment in time, it seemed that the sale of the company was going to open up a lot of new business possibilities,” Lisa Henson, Jim’s daughter and the Henson Company’s current CEO, told Vanity Fair.
The company spent the remainder of the decade under the leadership of Henson’s son, Brian, before being sold in 2000 to EM.TV, a German media conglomerate. If Henson had any initial plans to expand the Dark Crystal universe, they went unfulfilled before his sudden death in 1990. It wasn’t until the rise of home video that the film grew in popularity, and cemented itself as a beloved Henson classic-one that hopes to win new fans when Netflix premieres a long-awaited Dark Crystal prequel, subtitled Age of Resistance, on August 30. The film was a major technical achievement, showcasing the advanced animatronic technology Henson had been developing in his Creature Shop-but critical reviews were mixed, with the New York Times calling The Dark Crystal “as much of a visual muddle as a dramatic one.” Its initial box office gross was a relatively modest $40 million. The film, directed by Jim Henson and Frank Oz, broke with Henson’s image as the family-friendly filmmaker behind The Muppets, and introduced audiences to two elf-esque Gelflings trying to restore peace and order to a world ruled by hideous, evil creatures called the Skeksis. Nobody really knew what to make of The Dark Crystal in 1982.
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