Frank Oz over Little Shop of Horror en Dark Crystal en Jim Henson

RDJ134 26 oktober 2017 om 23:48 uur

De naam Frank Oz zal veel mensen weinig zeggen, maar echt film fans zijn bekend met zijn werk. Want hij is het meest bekend als de stem van Yoda, Miss Piggy, Fozzie The Bear en vele anderen. Maar ook is hij achter de schermen betrokken bij veel producties en daar van zijn er een aantal films nu cult klassiekers. De website Collider had een interview met hem en daar kwam het originele einde van Little Shop of Horrors ter sprake, net als The Dark Crystal en het werken met Jim Henson.


Jumping into why I actually get to talk to you today, what's amazing about Little Shop is it's finally going to be in theaters with the ending that you guys made all that time ago. When did you find out that they wanted to do a theatrical re-release and include the original cut that you had?

OZ
: It was a surprise to me. Quite a wonderful surprise. Kurt Galvao is a wonderful guy who's the head of the Post area in Warner Brothers. He and his team looked through all the vaults for old pieces of film to put together for old Blade Runner and all the old, great stuff. All of a sudden I got a call from somebody when I'm next in LA to take a look at what he did. And I came and I was just amazed. I really had absolutely nothing to do with this. It was like a Christmas present for me; this probably was a few years ago.

I know this is the first time it's on screens across the country, but it was on the screen on one screen and that was after Kurt put it together some time after the New York Film Festival for some sort of "iconic films" thing, so that was very nice, but that's the only time it's even been on the screen.

What do you remember most about making Dark Crystal and collaborating with Jim, is there a day or two that sticks out for you or is it pretty much the entire shoot was just one of those special things?

OZ:
When you say special what you really mean is hard.

Exactly.

OZ:
It was so ... It's because Jim, and it was his movie. I helped him direct the movie, but he had the vision. It was because of Jim not accepting the impossible and as a result he would work harder than anybody I've ever known because he was the one who led the way by working harder. None of us could say no because he always worked harder than us. When you say special, I think that really is the memory that I have, the incredible upward hill journey that we had to do every single day. It was very tough.

There were certain days that I think ... Do I remember certain days? I don't really. I remember the entire sequence that was a challenge every single day.

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