The journey begins as darkness rises. Join three Gelfling heroes on an epic quest to save their world.
The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance premieres August 30.
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The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance - Teaser Trailer
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The journey begins as darkness rises. Join three Gelfling heroes on an epic quest to save their world.
The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance premieres August 30.
main character is crap, which makes it a little hard to get invested in, but the world they created and the practical effects are amazing
The Dark Crystal is a movie that came out in 1982 from the jim hensen company,
they're working with netflix to bring a prequel series to the platform, using tons of practical effects and puppets like they did in the 80s film
This is a prequel, so technically no, but the trailer is very, very Force Awakens-y with the lengths it goes to to bring back beats, visuals and characters from the film, so it certainly can't hurt.
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I remember very little of the original movie, but I certainly remember that.
That looks amazing. I'm still a little worried about facial emoting with the gelflings, but stunning looking otherwise.
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I really hope they include some behind-the-scene featurettes cause that's something I want to watch as much as the series itself.
Yeah I was hoping they would go something like the where the wild things are movie or add more articulate animatronics to the faces.
Gelflings... moeesiia gelfings.
Holy shit, it's been years since saw the OG movie and this looks like a proper fusion of puppetry and CGI.
Holy shit, it's been years since saw the OG movie and this looks like a proper fusion of puppetry and CGI.
The original has some narrative issues, but it's beautiful to watch and has a fantastic soundtrack. It's a very unique experience, I've never seen a film quite like it (probably because there hasn't been another one like it, the lavish fantasy world based around puppetry).
well, the puppetry and production design look amazing, as I'd expect. hope it surpasses the original by actually having halfway interesting characters
I'm 40 years old and somehow have never seen The Dark Crystal... this looks fantastic though. I think I need to watch the movie before this releases.
Well you can do a lot more in a series format than you can in a single movie runtime.
Some of those characters have surprised pikachu expressions and I couldn't help but laugh. But lots of those designs are gorgeous. I'll give it a show
One thing this will have over the film is thanks to digital wizardy they'll presumably be able to always stick to puppets and not have to switch to live actors for wide stunt shots (it's a little jarring in the film when the puppet suddenly switches to an obviously real person climbing a rock or running or whatever).
it wasn't a function of limited running time so much as the original film being far more interested in worldbuilding than in actually populating that world with interesting characters (far from the first or last fantasy/SF to fall prey to that problem). Main reason why I found Labyrinth to have aged much better out of Jim Henson's two 1980s fantasy films
Looks solid, but there's something very Team America about the first few shots of the main character...
I didn't even know this was a thing. Looks freaking great. I'll be buying a month of Netflix for this.
True true, the movie def has issues. This looks very promising and hopefully doesn't succumb to similar pitfalls.
They're using CGI to remove the puppeteers, but the puppets themselves are real.