Variety is reporting that Genndy Tartakovsky (Samurai Jack, Star Wars: The Clone Wars) will direct Power of the Dark Crystal, the sequel to the 1982 fantasy film, The Dark Crystal.  Production will start in late summer on the sequel, which is set hundreds of years after the original film and involves a mysterious pyro girl who hopes to restart the sun with a stolen piece of crystal.

Tartakovsky considers the original Dark Crystal film to be the 'pinnacle of puppetry,' but will attempt to use modern 'green screen' technology to create the backgrounds for the puppets to act against in the sequel in order to keep the costs down without sacrificing the visual complexity of the film.