3-D Crystal resurfaces in Oz

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Production News

Australia's Omnilab Media has teamed up with the Jim Henson Company to co-finance and co-produce a stereoscopic 3-D sequel to 1982 film The Dark Crystal.

The Power of the Dark Crystal will be directed by Peter and Michael Spierig (Daybreakers, Undead) from a screenplay by Craig Pearce (Moulin Rouge, Strictly Ballroom, Romeo + Juliet) and a story by Annette Duffy and David Odell.

Omnilab's Ambience Media will be a producer, while its Illoura unit will provide CGI effects. The film, described by producers as "among the most ambitious projects to ever be produced in Australia," will mix live action with puppetry by Henson.

"This is a chance to take the world of puppetry into the modern age by using modern techniques (like motion capture CGI) and the tried and true methods (like puppetry and animatronics) to create a one hundred percent real world that is unique to The Dark Crystal," said Peter Spierig in a statement.

The producers will next seek global distribution arrangements.

The new story is set several hundred years after the first one and involves a girl made of fire who tries to reignite the sun.

The film has seven executive producers Brian Henson, Lisa Henson and Jason Lust, Omnilab Media's Christopher Mapp, Matthew Street and David Whealy and  Cinemarket Films' Peter D. Graves.

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