A Fraggle Rock update: Script writing is rolling along. Fraggle comedy and action ensues.

I can’t give any details about the Fraggle Rock script, but here’s how it’s going: I have blasted off into my wonderful free-fall of first draft, and have about fifty pages done. Part of the freedom to write (for me) comes from a very nailed-down outline. The outline for Fraggle Rock is extensive, around seventeen pages. It is the product of many meetings with the Henson and Weinstein folks, and has every little story beat we could think of. The outline as been picked at, beat up, and shot at for any major problems. So now I have the freedom to lock myself in my laboratory and create, knowing that I am working from a road map that everyone has signed off on. 

Of course, new twists and turns will present themselves as I write; things will be discovered off the beaten path of the outline. That’s inevitable. But when the studio has signed off on an outline, I am LESS likely to turn in a draft that surprises them (in a bad way).

I’m having a lot of fun. I just finished my first action scene (yes, there WILL be action scenes!), and am cracking some decent jokes. It’s hard to create jokes for Fraggles, since they have no pop culture references whatsoever. That’s probably a good thing… that means I have a better chance of creating a timeless movie (If I see one more cute iconic character ruined by “Shrekking It Up” for easy jokes, I’m going to go postal).

Gobo, Red and the gang say “Hi.”