The Storyteller
Neil Gaiman is set to produce a reboot of Jim Henson ’s iconic ' 80s anthology series , The Storyteller . It is the latest Gaiman television project in the last few age . Fox premieredLucifer , adapted from the quality create in Gaiman ’s Vertigo comics seriesThe Sandman , in 2015 . to boot , Starz is countersink to debut Season 2 ofAmerican Godsat the end of MarchandAmazon will premiereGood Omenson May 31.The Storytellerwill find the famed generator and telly writer - producer taking on the world of Jim Henson .
create by Henson , The Storytelleroriginally bare in 1987 and utilized both marionette and worker to severalize stories of unknown and obscure folk tales . Running for only nine episodes , with a 4 - sequence " Greek Myths " spinoff , The Storytellerwent on to win an Emmy and BAFTA . Henson himself directed multiple episodes , which were all write by Oscar - win film maker Anthony Minghella ofThe English PatientandThe Talented Mr. Ripleyfame . The late , corking John Hurt voiced the narrator who was an elfin fabricator of occult origins and the show feature an incredible amount of marionette designs from the fabled Jim Henson ’s Creature party .
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According toDeadline , this new interpretation will produce its own mystical world that combines different fairy story and myth . Gaiman will write and executive produce this reimagining of Jim Henson ’s original vision , boom on European folklore with a wide range of stories and myths from around the populace . Gaiman expressed his excitement for the project in a instruction :
“ The original The Storyteller was a brilliantly written , aim , and recite bent of tarradiddle . It ’s a terrifying and inhale task to reinvent what Jim Henson did for the lucky years of television we are in right now . I ’m honored that The Jim Henson Company would entrust me with the task of bringing back the fabricator and his magical stories , and sending him out into the world for a whole new circle of narration . ”
Produced by The Jim Henson Company in association with FremantleMedia , this new translation ofThe Storytellerwill have Jim ’s girl Lisa Henson serving as executive producer and Blanca Lista as co - executive producer . Jim Henson was said to have been inspired by Lisa ’s university studies in folklore and mythology . FremantleMedia already has a working relationship with Gaiman , who is say to bedeveloping an adaptation of Mervyn Peake ’s Gormenghat novel as a TV series , as well .
Gaiman is no unknown to adapting folklore and myths from a variety of cultures . Two of the author ’s books , American GodsandAnansi Boys , have draw from this well , while the recentNorse Mythologybook brought a more veritable singing of classical myth to the printed page . Gaiman ’s storied vocation utter for itself when it come to updating and modernizing such stories . Giving this wonderful writer the add up fanfare of brute puppetry from the Henson Creature Company is sure to fetch something special to the projection screen , no matter where the serial publication end up .
No web or service is bond to showcaseThe Storytelleras of yet , but the producers are looking to reach"the broadest interview possible . “The Jim Henson Company is also process on the prequel series forThe Dark Crystal , which is set to hail out sometime this year on Netflix . The streaming Robert William Service could end up being the most obvious pick for this raw translation ofThe narrator .
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Source : Deadline
