I don't like to complain about things, I'm just impatient, and with the history of this film, I would say that it's deserved.
It would be better to be kept in the loop, but the small crew at JHC has never been skilled in the area of updates. In the end, we really aren't entitled to anything. The last report from Brian Henson stated
this.
I have heard many rumors that I haven't mentioned (from the recent skyrocketing expense of shooting in Austraila to hearing that all practical shooting was already in the can) but this update is the closest to any real info. It isn't much.
Basically Brian Henson himself states about both the Fraggle and Dark Crystal movies,"Both of those projects... are very close to going into pre-production...they're both really ready to go. [The studio is] just [in the process of] putting together the final finance pieces and the final distribution pieces."
That's where I got the budget comment from. Financing apparently isn't totally locked-in. I too thought all this pre-production had already been fleshed out. We've heard much about POTDC over the years that seems to have jumped the gun. Ultimately it's all crapola until we see an actual trailer. It is frustrating. Very frustrating. But it's a hard thing to get a film made that doesn't have happy CG farting characters voiced by pop stars. Let's hope POTDC actually does get made (sans farting cartoons, of course).