Jim Henson’s Lost Screenplay. (They Found It!)

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In his early years, Jim Henson wrote a screenplay called Tale of Sand that was never produced. He and his writing partner Jerry Juhl returned to the project repeatedly over the years, revising it, but it was never filmed, and the screenplay went into a drawer in the mid-1970s. Now the project has been resurrected, adapted by Ramón Pérez into a graphic novel that conveys the sardonic, absurdist humor of early Henson and Juhl. Read on for my review and an exclusive interview with Karen Falk, Archives Director and historian for The Henson Company.

Continue Reading: Jim Henson’s Lost Epic: Tale of Sand

His lost screenplay was in a drawer? That should have been the first place they looked.

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    Pérez’s fabulous webcomic Kukuburi, you know exactly how fantastic...collaboration this...
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    drawer? That should have been...first place they looked.
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    OOoooohhh I want this.
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