Last week I got a scare that The Power of the Dark Crystal, the sequel to Henson’s The Dark Crystal that Genndy “Samurai Jack” Tartakovsky has been prepping for two years, had been axed. Now this morning’s jog around the Internet reveals news from the Muppet Central Forum that the hiatus was just a rumor. There’s still enough murkiness around the whole scenario to make my magic 8 ball claim “outlook unclear”, but at this point I’m going to hope and pray that Brian and Lisa and Genndy are still, as the report suggests, on track to debut the film at Cannes in 2008 — both for the sake of my personal fanboy nature and for the sake of my THESIS!
After researching transmedia storyworlds at MIT, guiding Microsoft in its CTO/CXO's think tank, co-founding Microsoft Studios' Narrative Design team, and exploring the future of entertainment and media as the Creative Director and a Research Fellow for USC's Annenberg Innovation Lab, I'm now the Creative Director for USC's World Building Media Lab, a storyteller, a designer, a consultant, and a doctoral student in Media Arts and Practice at USC's School of Cinematic Arts. more »
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