The second season of the rebooted Fraggle Rock franchise premiers March 29 on AppleTV+.
Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock season 2 was filmed contained in the Calgary Film Centre.
During Global News Calgary’s unique tour on set, we obtained to see the world of fraggles, gorgs and doozers come to life in actual time.
John Tartaglia is a author and government producer on the present. He’s additionally the puppet captain and performs plenty of characters, together with Gobo fraggle and Sprocket the canine.
Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock season 2 was filmed in Calgary. It premieres March 29, 2024.
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He felt the strain to ship on season 2, after a really profitable season one which obtained a 100 per cent score on Rotten Tomatoes, and awards from the Directors Guild of Canada, Canadian Cinema Editors Awards, PGA Awards and Children’s Family and Emmy Awards.
“It’s still the beautiful show that we love and the fans love, but we’ve just kind of upped the stakes a little bit,” Tartaglia says.
The authentic Jim Hensen Fraggle Rock collection debuted in 1983 and was filmed in Toronto.
Both seasons of the rebooted franchise had been filmed in Calgary.
Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock season 2 was filmed in Calgary. It premieres March 29, 2024.
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Tartaglia says it was so vital to come back again to Canada.
“There’s something about the heart of the show that’s always had a Canadian feel to it, and I think that’s really important to capture here.”
Calgary crews had been used all through manufacturing, too, together with prop grasp Kesar Lacroix, who obtained to create all of the automobiles and tech for the doozer characters in season 2.
“Everybody in our department has grown up with Fraggle Rock, period. It’s part of our childhood, and we all became prop makers and prop builders and prop on-set technologists in order to get the shot of hopefully doing a show like this, and we’ve had the best time doing it.”
This newest collection is one other notch within the belt for Calgary’s movie and TV business, which continues to develop and seize the eye of Hollywood.
The Calgary Film Commission says between 2021 and 2023, $1.2 billion was spent on manufacturing, practically 15,000 jobs had been created and greater than 750,000 sq. ft of studio and manufacturing house was constructed. It’s obtained large plans for 2024, together with constructing a web site to recruit, practice and retain expertise.
Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock season 2 was filmed in Calgary. It premieres March 29, 2024.
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Jordan Lockhart, the puppeteer and voice for Wembley Fraggle, grew up in Ottawa. He believes Canada is gaining a foothold in the marketplace.
“Things have come a great distance from after I was in highschool, dreaming of being in movie and tv.
“There’s wonderful expertise right here in Canada.
“Toronto and Vancouver are touted as being the hubs, but having been here now for two seasons in Calgary, I’m so impressed by the crews out here.”
Karen Prell has been the puppeteer and voice for Red fraggle for the reason that authentic Fraggle Rock collection greater than 4 many years in the past. She’s thrilled to see star energy like Ariana DeBose, Brett Goldstein, Adam Lambert and Catherine O’Hara be part of for visitor appearances in Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock season 2.
She additionally says outdoors of the chilly and snow, Calgary is a magical place.
“I love Calgary. It’s just beautiful. I love the people here, I love the scenery. I love running along the river. I’ve made several trips to Banff.”
As for what to anticipate within the newest Fraggle Rock collection, government producer and author Alex Cuthbertson says they hold Hensen, the unique creator, of their minds.
“We knew we wanted to stay with the elements of the Earth because that feels so connected to Fraggle Rock. So, we decided that wind was a really cool way to explore the season. We used wind as a metaphor to talk about change that is both scary and exciting.”
“It’s hope punk. It’s making hope cool again,” Tartaglia mentioned. “This family of characters can speak to a new generation of kids and hopefully make the world a better place.”
You can watch Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock season 2 on AppleTV+ beginning March 29, 2024.
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