Sometime during July of 1979, a Hollywood miracle happened.
After three years of world-building and hammering out a screenplay, Jim Henson was given a budget of $15 million to create a high-fantasy film compromised completely of puppets.
Accounting for inflation, that would be the equivalent of $40 million to make what Henson described as a return to the scariness of the original Grimm Fairy Tales.
Another three years would pass before The Dark Crystal arrived in theaters on December 17, 1982.
The trailer had promised a fantasy action-adventure from the creators of The Muppet Show.
What audiences …
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