Jim Henson's Creature Shop Is Not Working On Star Wars: Episode VII

Star Wars fans possibly looked at the puppet creature trudging along behind director J.J. Abrams on the set of Star Wars: Episode VII in the photo above and got their hopes up that the legendary Jim Henson’s Creature Shop finally was collaborating with the sci-fi universe on a story set in a galaxy far, far away. Well, let’s bring you back down to Earth.

Representatives for The Jim Henson Company denied to SlashFilm that the Creature Shop – which keeps its creative fingers in many Hollywood pots – has any involvement in Star Wars: Episode VII. There was reason to believe this was possible. J.J. Abrams has been saying on record that it’s his intention to rely on practical effects whenever possible, putting his first Star Wars film closer in line to A New Hope and The Empire Strikes Back than to the digital chill of, say, Attack of the Clones.