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| - Kirk Thatcher (b. February 14) is a writer and director who has worked with the Muppets since 1989. His career began at age 18 working for George Lucas's Industrial Light and Magic. During his time with ILM, he designed, built, painted, and puppeteered creatures for numerous films including Return of the Jedi, Star Trek II, Star Trek III, E.T., Poltergeist, and Gremlins.
- Thatcher actually composed the song "I Hate You" which plays on his boombox in the movie. Beyond the realm of Star Trek, Thatcher has worked as a puppeteer, writer and director in many projects for Jim Henson's "Muppets". In one such project, the 4 January 1998 episode of Muppets Tonight, a plot element revolved around the Muppet Beaker going on a Star Trek fan cruise, with George Takei as featured guest. Thatcher, who co-wrote the episode, appeared on-camera as a fan dressed as a Klingon, urging "Sulu" to take the bridge when the ship runs into trouble. Other episodes of Muppets Tonight involved cameos by William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy from TOS, as well as guest stars from other series incarnations, including Whoopi Goldberg and Jason Alexander.
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| - Thatcher actually composed the song "I Hate You" which plays on his boombox in the movie. Beyond the realm of Star Trek, Thatcher has worked as a puppeteer, writer and director in many projects for Jim Henson's "Muppets". In one such project, the 4 January 1998 episode of Muppets Tonight, a plot element revolved around the Muppet Beaker going on a Star Trek fan cruise, with George Takei as featured guest. Thatcher, who co-wrote the episode, appeared on-camera as a fan dressed as a Klingon, urging "Sulu" to take the bridge when the ship runs into trouble. Other episodes of Muppets Tonight involved cameos by William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy from TOS, as well as guest stars from other series incarnations, including Whoopi Goldberg and Jason Alexander. Thatcher began his career as a sculptor and model maker at Industrial Light & Magic in 1981, at the age of 19. He worked on such films as Star Wars: Return of the Jedi, E.T.:The Extra-Terrestrial and Poltergeist. He also worked on Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan and Star Trek III: The Search for Spock. He played a punk with a boombox again in a cameo as a homeless man in 2017's Spider-Man: Homecoming. [3]
- Kirk Thatcher (b. February 14) is a writer and director who has worked with the Muppets since 1989. His career began at age 18 working for George Lucas's Industrial Light and Magic. During his time with ILM, he designed, built, painted, and puppeteered creatures for numerous films including Return of the Jedi, Star Trek II, Star Trek III, E.T., Poltergeist, and Gremlins. Thatcher would go on to become a concept artist and designer for several music videos, served as an associate producer for Star Trek IV - making a notable onscreen cameo as well - and started a production company for director David Fincher. Beginning in 1988, Thatcher worked on The Jim Henson Hour as an associate producer. Dinosaurs followed in 1991, a television series for which he developed, produced and wrote. He also designed several of the show's characters. During the 1990's, Thatcher was on the writing staff for Muppets Tonight, and co-wrote Muppet Treasure Island. Thatcher continues to work on Muppet productions for Disney, as well as on projects for the Jim Henson Company, directing episodes of Neil's Puppet Dreams (starring Neil Patrick Harris) and the telefilm Jim Henson's Turkey Hollow. He also appeared as a judge on the 2014 reality series, Jim Henson's Creature Shop Challenge.
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