A Jim Henson biopic is in progress from The Jim Henson Company and Disney. The Current Warand The Giver writer Michael Mitnick has been set to inscribe the biopic, which has been appropriately titled Muppet Man, rewriting a preceding version of a script by Jordan and Aaron Kandell. Henson’s daughter, Lisa Henson, who’s also occupied on Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio movie for Netflix, will work as a producer.
About the film
The film will graph the life and times of the renowned puppeteer, creator of The Muppets, Fraggle Rock, and many of the Sesame Street characters. It also will document the director of unusual films such as The Dark Crystal and Labyrinth. The film will improve Henson’s journey to persuade broadcasters that The Muppets was a prodigious notion and how he worked to grow the characters’ characters where they became a fundamental comedy. Possibly the most renowned puppeteer of all time, Henson co-founded Muppets, Inc. It became The Jim Henson Company in 1958. After emerging new characters for Sesame Street, Henson provided the Muppets their series by generating The Muppet Show in 1974. Foremost the carton was the show sprinter Kermit the Frog, who Henson initially voiced. The series became hit in primetime with co-creator Bill Prady’s The Muppets reboot on ABC in 2015.
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A song from the film was selected for preservation
Just last month, Henson was privileged once again when the 1979 song “Rainbow Connection” from The Muppet Film was believed “ethnically, factually, or appealingly significant” by the Library of Congress. The song was designated for preservation in the National Recording Registry. With music and lyrics by Kenneth Ascher and Paul Williams, the song was performed by Henson as Kermit the Frog. At the time of its release, it extended No. 25 on the Billboard Hot 100. The song also received also an Academy Award nomination.
