Fraggle Rock is Coming to the Big Screen
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The Weinstein Company will turn the Jim Henson series "Fraggle Rock" into a live-action musical feature, reports Variety .
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Fraggle Rock: The Movie
Published 5/13/2008 by john@themovieblog.com (John Campea) at The Movie Blog
News of a Fraggle Rock movie is hardly news. They have been talking about this for a long time. But now the Weinstein Company with Cory Edwards to direct, will finally get moving on a feature film.
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Just like the series, the film will be populated by a mix of human characters and Fraggle Rock puppets. The movie will take the core characters Gogo, Wembley, Mokey, Boober and Red outside of their home in Fraggle Rock, where they interact with humans, which they think are aliens.
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