Joseph Gordon-Levitt to star in long-awaited Fraggle Rock film

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Dance your cares away (clap clap) worries for another day, let the music play (clap clap) down at Fraggle Rock.

Err sorry, but who can forget the Fraggle Rock theme tune from the 1980s singing puppet TV show?

And it's been a long 10 years waiting for news that there'll be a Fraggle film starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt.

"The first screen personas I ever loved were Henson creations, first on Sesame Street and then on Fraggle Rock," the star told Variety magazine, external.

The original 1980s children's TV series was created by the late puppeteer Jim Henson and has long been tipped to make a move to the big screen.

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"Jim Henson's characters make you laugh and sing, but they're also layered, surprising, and wise," says Joseph Gordon-Levitt.

"I've never stopped loving his work, even as a young frisky man, and on into adulthood."

The original TV series launched in 1983 and was based on cave-dwelling Muppets called Fraggles who lived on Fraggle Rock.

They lived alongside the pudgy green ant-like Doozers and fat furry humanoids called Gorgs.

Humans, who lived outside Fraggle Rock, were called "silly creatures".

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Joseph Gordon-Levitt has experience working with Muppets having appeared with Kermit and Miss Piggy during the Lady Gaga And The Muppets' Holiday Spectacular from November 2013.

A director and writer for the Fraggle Rock movie haven't been named and there's no release date yet, according to Variety.

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