H.R. PUFNSTUF movie(?!) to use WILD THINGS tech

In an article published last Tuesday in The New York Daily News, Marty Krofft says that he and his brother Sid are at work on a movie version of H.R. Pufnstuf that would see the show's characters brought to the screen using puppet bodies and CGI heads in a process not unlike that used for Where the Wild Things Are.

" 'Wild Things' is very, very good for us," says Marty Krofft. "We always wanted to do low-tech costumes and high-tech heads. But it'll be a big difference in tone, of course — we'll be bright, not dark."

I don't know, to me half the charm of those old Krofft shows is the way those big, ugly puppet heads flop around, the lips rarely coming close to matching the dialogue.

Here are the opening titles for the show, which I haven't seen since I was seven or so. So, was this the weirdest show that ever aired on American TV? Could be, could be.



(And what the heck does "Can't do a little cause he can't do enough" mean, anyhow? Even the theme song for this show was a head scratcher!)

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