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‘Jim Henson Idea Man’: How Archival Footage and Family Anecdotes Helped Ron Howard Preserve a Legacy
How Ron Howard told Jim Henson's story using family interviews and archival footage
The film combines archival material with talking head interviews with Rita Moreno, Jennifer Connelly, Henson’s children and longtime collaborator Frank Oz. Speaking with Variety, Howard said after meeting Henson’s children, Lisa, Cheryl, Brian and Heather, he was fascinated by the stories they told about their upbringing. We can reveal this tremendous volume of work that we don’t know about, but we can connect it with something we relate to, which is life is complicated and families are interesting because things shift and change.’ I’s a very specific situation because they’re surrounded by the whole circus that was Jim Henson and the Muppets.”
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