Joseph Gordon-Levitt Is Making a Fraggle Rock Movie, and Is It Really Not April 1st Today?

If I ran this as an April Fool post, would any of you have believed it?

“The first screen personas I ever loved were Henson creations, first on ‘Sesame Street,’ and then on ‘Fraggle Rock,'” Gordon-Levitt said. “Jim Henson’s characters make you laugh and sing, but they’re also layered, surprising, and wise. From Oscar the Grouch, to Yoda, to the Fraggles. I’ve never stopped loving his work, even as a young frisky man, and on into adulthood. Collaborating with Lisa Henson makes me confident we can do something that Jim would have loved. I’m grateful and excited to be working with New Regency on this project.”

JGL will produce AND star – I’m guessing as the guy who owns Sprocket the dog, who was played in the wraparound segments by a different actor depending which country you watched the show in. As a kid, I got very confused when Irish TV would broadcast the US episodes with an American inventor, and British TV would show the UK episodes with a Scottish lighthouse-keeper. With the star of Looper and Inception in charge, I’d love to see a storyline that reconciles all those wraparound segments within the same reality somehow.