Talk:Henson (film)

Release dates
Just a note, I took this item off of the 2009 timeline since the only source for the claim is Greg James' Muppet Newsflash, whose post otherwise parrots the original press announcements, so unless he has some other unknown source (which I doubt), it looks like speculation (Scott already removed it from this article for the same reason). While live action movies *usually* take less time to make (certainly less than the average Creature Shop movie), so far all that's happened is that the screenplay has been bought, a starting budget set, summer 2008 chosen as the tentative filming start date, and absolutely nobody else attached in any way. It all depends on how long it takes to find a director, stars, whether they start filming on time, and so on (not to mention the WGA contract negotiations still pending resolution, possibly nearing it; the upcoming SGA contract negotiations; rights issues negotiations for use of puppet characters, songs, archive footage, and who knows what else, and no word at all yet what the Henson family or the Jim Henson Company think about it, and getting waivers from them). In general, for even an indie live action film, one and a half to two years tends to be the average minimum, from pre to post-production, and biopics almost always take longer. To date, Empire Film Group's resume is limited to exactly one theatrical film, Blonde and Blonder starring Pamela Anderson, which itself took two years from when actual production started, with an unreleased straight to DVD horror and a theatrical movie called The Game in the works and supposedly expected sometime this year (with the latter appearently made in conjunction with Spyglass Media, which should speed things up). So until an official source from Empire announces 2009 as their projected date, it strikes me as safer to just leave it off, since again, the project has just been announced and a heckuva lot could happen, or not happen, in the coming months and year. -- 20:25, 7 February 2008 (UTC)