Sesame Street Movie: 20th Century Fox Buys Rights To Popular Children’s Show
Fans of Follow That Bird have waited 25 years for a new feature and now 20th Century Fox has announced plans for a new Sesame Street movie.
Fox picked up the rights to the series and they have tapped Sesame Street writer Joe Mazzarino to pen the script. Producing the movie will be Shawn Levy, Michael Aguilar, Mark Gordon and Guymon Casady.
Sesame Street started airing in 1969 and much like its starting days the PBS airing series still relies on a mix of live-action and puppetry along with various forms of animation.
The Jim Henson created show is one of the few series that can claim one in three Americans have watched at least one episode.
Sesame Street is now broadcast in dozens of countries and it has won 138 Emmy awards since it began airing.
We will likely see some big names attached to the new Sesame Street movie as Follow That Bird included appearances by John Candy, Chevy Chase and Dave Thomas.
The last big attempt at a move was 1999′s The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland which failed to make the same splash as Follow That Bird.
Sesame Workshop will likely take on some type of producer role to ensure the integrity of the movie.
At this time we still don’t know if the Sesame Street movie will focus on specific characters or offer a more generalized approach. One thing is almost for certain, Elmo will make a big appearance in the feature film since he’s pretty much always on the mind of young Sesame Street viewers.
In the meantime the team at New Regency are busily working on a new Fraggle’s Rock movie.
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Jun 20, 2012
Seriously!!
Jun 20, 2012
The Elmo movie failed because ELMO SUCKS! He's not even a character — he's the politically-correct concoction of a group of douchebags sitting around a boardroom in a corporate office somewhere. In the meantime, the Count is yanked off the show 'cuz he's "frightens" them (who is scared by the Count? Every kid I ever met usually says they learned to count FROM the Count! No WONDER we are behind China and everyone else is math– we took away the Count!) and Cookie Monster was pulled from the show 'cuz he "promotes gluttony." Are you serious? Cookie Monster only goes gaga over cookies — hardly the "gluttony" these morons reference. If these guys want to make a successful "Sesame Street" movie, they are going to have to bring back the REAL CHARACTERS that an audience can identify with and get rid of this shallow, soulless caricature of supposed "perfection" called Elmo. Nobody who has money for tickets wants to see him, and it usually isn't long (after screening pre-Elmo era "Sesame Street" on youtube) that the young ones who don't have ticket money learn why their parents refused to subject them to post-Henson "Sesame Street."
Jun 20, 2012
David. Have you seen "Being Elmo" I can assure you Elmo was the creation of Kevin Clash and not some "boardroom" creation. The Count is very much on the show, Cookie monster does learn about healthier foods but still goes gaga for cookies, especially when presenting his famous letter of the day sketch. Yes there are new characters, but the core of the show has not changed since 1969. The show also still uses an independent educational board to vet segments based on educational tenants.
Jun 20, 2012
Elmo still sucks, though.