The Dark Crystal (upcoming film)

Power of the Dark Crystal is an upcoming American-British puppetry fantasy adventure film. It is being directed by with a screenplay written by written by  and. It is the sequel to the 1982 film The Dark Crystal.

Voice Cast

 * as Jen
 * as Kira

Development
During the development phase of The Dark Crystal, director Jim Henson and writer David Odell discussed ideas for a possible sequel. Almost 25 years later, Odell and his wife Annette Duffy pieced together what Odell could recall from these discussions to draft a script for The Power of the Dark Crystal. Genndy Tartakovsky was initially hired in January 2006 to direct and produce the film through The Orphanage animation studios in California.

However, faced with considerable delays, the Jim Henson Company announced a number of significant changes in a May 2010 press release: It was going to partner with Australia-based Omnilab Media to produce the sequel, screenwriter Craig Pearce had reworked Odell and Duffy's script, and directing team Michael and Peter Spierig were replacing Tartakovsky. In addition, the film would be released in stereoscopic 3D.

During a panel held at the Museum of the Moving Image on September 18, 2011 to commemorate the legacy of Jim Henson, his daughter Cheryl revealed that the project was yet again on hiatus. More recently, it was reported in February 2012 that Omnilab Media and the Spierig brothers had parted ways with the Henson Company due to budgetary concerns; production on the film has been suspended indefinitely.

On July 1, 2013, an announcement was made by The Jim Henson Company, in association with Grosset and Dunlap (a publishing division of Penguin Group USA) that they would be hosting a Dark Crystal Author Quest Contest to write a new Dark Crystal novel, as a prequel to the original film. It would be set in the Dark Crystal world during a 'Gelfling Gathering.' The winning author was J.M. (Joseph) Lee of Minneapolis, Minn. whose story, "The Ring of Dreams," was selected from almost 500 contest submissions.

He was awarded a publishing contract with Penguin worth $10,000 (US). In May 2014, Lisa Henson confirmed that the film was still in development, but it is not yet in pre-production.

Ultimately, plans for a feature film were scrapped, and the unproduced screenplay will be adapted into a twelve-issue comic book series The Power of the Dark Crystal from Archaia Comics and BOOM! Studios, to be released in 2017

On 2018 it has been greenlit, has signed to co-produce the film and  will distribute throughout UK with The Spierig Brothers as directors with a script Odell and.

Music
confirmed his return to score the film.

Casting
and will reprise their respective roles as Jen and Kira, producer  confirmed that the film will use anamatronic puppets and motion-capture performances. also confirmed that it will also introduce human characters with a new breed of that can survive without the Mystics.