History Trivia / TheDarkCrystal

* LoopingLines: During post-production of the film, all of the characters' lines had to be re-recorded, with Steve Whitmire and Brian Muehl being the only actors to serve as both puppeteers and voice actors.

* ChannelHop: The movie was initially set to be distributed by Associated Film Distribution[[note]]a joint American distribution firm between Lord Lew Grade and ITC, which had co-produced ''Series/TheMuppetShow''; and record producer EMI and their film arm[[/note]] like ''Film/TheMuppetMovie'' was; but after the one-three punch of ''Film/RaiseTheTitanic'', ''Film/CantStopTheMusic'', and ''Film/TheLegendOfTheLoneRanger'', [[CreatorKiller AFD was essentially executed]] and its remaining backlog, including ''Film/TheGreatMuppetCaper'' and this film, were sold to Creator/{{Universal}}; currently, the Jim Henson Company owns the rights and licensed it out to [[Creator/ShoutFactory Shout! Studios]] for recent media releases; it previously went through Creator/SonyPictures Home Entertainment ([[TheArtifact a remnant]] of the Henson/Sony partnership in the late 90s), Thorn EMI Video (then successor Creator/{{HBO}} Video) and through Disney's Jim Henson Video label in the mid '90s. Universal still owns theatrical distribution rights to the film, and they re-released the film through Fathom Events.

** [=skekSo=] and [=skekZok=] are both voiced by Jerry Nelson.
** In addition to performing [=skekSo=] and [=skekZok=], Creator/JimHenson also performed Jen.

* ChannelHop: The movie was initially set to be distributed by Associated Film Distribution[[note]]a joint American distribution firm between Lord Lew Grade and ITC, which had co-produced ''Series/TheMuppetShow''; and record producer EMI and their film arm[[/note]] like ''Film/TheMuppetMovie'' was; but after the one-three punch of ''Film/RaiseTheTitanic'', ''Film/CantStopTheMusic'', and ''Film/TheLegendOfTheLoneRanger'', [[CreatorKiller AFD was essentially executed]] and its remaining backlog, including ''Film/TheGreatMuppetCaper'' and this film, were sold to Creator/{{Universal}}; currently, the Jim Henson Company owns the rights and licensed it out to Creator/SonyPictures Home Entertainment for recent media releases ([[TheArtifact a remnant]] of the Henson/Sony partnership in the late 90s); it previously went through Thorn EMI Video (then successor Creator/{{HBO}} Video) and through Disney's Jim Henson Video label in the mid '90s. Universal still owns theatrical distribution rights to the film, and they re-released the film through Fathom Events.

* TheWikiRule: [[http://darkcrystal.wikia.com/wiki/The_Dark_Crystal_Wiki The Dark Crystal Wiki]]. The [[https://muppet.fandom.com/wiki/2019 Muppet Wiki]] also covers the franchise.

** Longtime Muppet performer Kevin Clash was originally asked by Jim Henson to puppeteer in the film, and almost jumped at the chance until he was reminded by Kermit Love of his commitment to two different TV shows: ''Series/CaptainKangaroo'' and ''Series/TheGreatSpaceCoaster''. Clash reluctantly turned down the offer, but made up for it by performing creatures in Henson's next fantasy film, ''Film/{{Labyrinth}}''.

* ScrewedByTheStudio: Averted. During post-production, Lew Grade sold his company ITC to new management who saw no faith in the product, especially after poor test screenings. Fearing that ITC would bury the film and write off their investment in it, Jim Henson personally bought the rights to the picture and paid for its completion.

* CreatorsPest: * A. C. H. Smith grew to find the podlings annoying while writing the novelization. He originally wrote a scene where a cafe full of them goes over a cliff but Creator/JimHenson wouldn't let him publish it.

** As seen in some of the DVD extras, the Skeksis were originally going to speak an "alien" language. This was kept up through the first preview, which was a disaster. Henson was convinced that the visuals alone would be plenty to figure out what the Skeksis were saying, but was proven wrong when he showed a rough cut of the Chamberlain's banishment to ''[[Series/TheMuppetShow Muppet Show]]'' Jerry Juhl, who was soon ''begging'' him to have them speak English so people could understand what the hell was going on. All Mystic and Skeksis vocals were dubbed in between the first and second showing for executives. A lot of Skeksis words were kept in the novelization.

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** MacGuffin (second from bottom, right column)