20 Oct

Murderous Muppets and More

This week’s episode brings news of an upcoming not-for-kids Muppet film noir, an idea that could go horribly awry but will most likely be pretty cool. Henson has kind of let the Muppets languish in obscurity for a while now, but they’re actively trying to regain some of the recognition that’s slipped away from them. With this, a Jason Segel (Forgetting Sarah Marshall) family-friendly Muppet film in the works, and a Dark Crystal sequel from Genndy Tartakovsky, the company is really making a push to be important again beyond the 3-and-under demographic that Sesame Street has in its thrall.

We also spend a great deal of time (too much, probably) talking about the recently released images from the new Star Trek film. It’s totally ridiculous to make any kind of judgement about the film based on a handful of images, but we pretty much do that anyway. I reiterate that I really hope to be able to go into this film and have it blow me away. If it’s good enough I can forget that it’s not Shatner up there on screen. Although Spock is still a little shiny.

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