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SolRo - 2008-07-05

Why did this show ever get canceled?


Hegemony Cricket - 2008-07-05

It wasn't. Jim Henson personally stopped the show in 1981 to concentrate on things like "The Dark Crystal" (1982), "Star Wars: Return of the Muppets" (1983), and the aborted Werner Herzog collaboration on a fanciful pseudo-sequel to "Fitzcaraldo" planned for 1984 that featured the Muppets as fish-out-of-water performers brought in to stage a production of Donizetti's "Lucretia Brogia" at Fitzgerald's (Klaus Kinski) Iquitos theater. Henson and Herzog clashed over the film, as Werner, saw it as a fragmented pastiche of Fitzcarraldo's deathbed hallucinations with each muppet representing an aspect of his psyche. This was to counter public perception that "Fitzcarraldo" itself was his most upbeat and optimistic film, as well as providing a distinction between the documentary style of the "real" film (called the Exterior Fitz) and the experimental narrative of the "Interior Fitz". A particularly feverish nightmare sequence was planned with Klaus Kinski's character feasting on fleecy Muppet flesh to "...consume that which had consumed my spirit".

Henson, on the other hand, thought it should be a musical road film as the Muppets attempt to make it to the remote Peruvian town; with Miss Piggy playing the singer that initially captivated the tribesman Fitzgerald used to move the ship, and ending with Kinski's character learning the true power of friendship.

At least, that's the official line...


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