Tale of Sand

Tale of Sand is a dark existential screenplay originally written in 1967 by Jim Henson and Jerry Juhl. Henson came up with the idea in the mid to late 1950s and worked with Juhl in scripting the feature-length screenplay throughout the late '60s and early '70s. Tale of Sand married the visuals of Henson's Time Piece with the ideas of The Cube. Due to the scope and strangeness of the screenplay, Henson was never able to produce it as a film.
==Plot==
The protagonist of Tale of Sand is a young man named Mac who is involved in a race across an expansive desert with only a rucksack full of odds-and-ends to his name. Meanwhile, he is being chased by a mysterious eyepatched man known as "Patch".
==Graphic novel==
In January 2012, The Jim Henson Company's comic book partner, Archaia Entertainment, published a graphic novel version of Henson and Juhl's script with art by Ramón Pérez. Lisa Henson supervised the production process, working with Archaia editor-in-chief Stephen Christy.
===Free Comic Book Day preview===
A preview of the comic was released Archaia's 2011 Free Comic Book Day issue (also featuring The Dark Crystal) available on May 7, 2011.
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===Development===
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==The Illustrated Screenplay==
Jim Henson's Tale of Sand: The Illustrated Screenplay was announced by Archaia as a companion piece to the graphic novel in 2012. This reproduction of the script by Henson and Juhl was originally planned for release in December 2012 but finally released in September 2014. It featured new artwork by Pérez and sequences from the script that were cut for the original graphic novel.
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==Additional information==
* The font used throughout the graphic novel was created from Jim Henson's handwriting.
* Some motifs in the screenplay were later seen in The Muppet Movie, including the desert scenes and the final showdown. Additionally, in an homage to The Muppet Movie, the graphic novel features a horse skeleton in the ghost town.
* Caricatures of Jim Henson and Jerry Juhl both make cameos in the graphic novel.Comic Con 2011 coverage, Tough Pigs. October 22, 2011.
==Notes==
==Sources==
==External links==
* Q&A with Tale of Sand’s Ramón Pérez ToughPigs.com, January 6, 2014
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