The unique Labyrinth was a type of films that was such a exact product of its time, place, and the artistic collision of the individuals engaged on it that it’s arduous to think about ever recreating the identical ineffable magic of the 80’s darkish fantasy musical, or why you’d wish to strive. However that’s by no means stopped Hollywood earlier than, and a sequel is reportedly lastly getting off the bottom with horror director Robert Eggers on the helm.
Deadline stories that Eggers has closed a cope with TriStar Photos to put in writing and direct a sequel to the film which starred David Bowie, Jennifer Connelly, and a sprawling solid of a few of Jim Henson’s most memorable muppets. Chris and Eleanor Columbus will apparently produce the movie together with two of Henson’s youngsters, Lisa and Brian. There’s reportedly a accomplished script as nicely, although no phrase on whether or not it’s a musical or how most of the unique characters will return.
Eggers’ inventory is buying and selling at an all-time excessive after 2024’s Nosferatu, a vampire thriller remake, grew to become his high grossing film ever, scoring over $150 million on the field workplace. It won’t sound like lots in comparison with different fashionable blockbusters, but it surely’s an enormous industrial hit relative to the remainder of the director’s extra area of interest style releases (all glorious), together with The Witch, The Lighthouse, and The Northman. Nosferatu additionally obtained a number of Oscar nominations right now, and Eggers has already locked down his subsequent horror mission, titled Werwulf.
All of which is to say it’s arduous to think about Eggers making a nasty film, but it surely’s additionally arduous to think about what sequel to Labyrinth would appear to be roughly 40 years later, when a few of the distinctive abilities integral to the unique’s unbelievable music and evocative world—Bowie and Henson—are gone. Among the many extra memorable performances within the 1986 film are are a troll named Hoggle, a large Wookie-like beast known as Ludo, and a knight named Sir Didymus who is known as a canine whose horse can also be a canine (although notably the puppet for Hoggle was manipuated by Brian Henson, who’s producing the sequel).
With Werwulf not popping out till Christmas day in 2026, we nonetheless have loads of time earlier than the Labyrinth sequel hits theaters. Within the meantime I’m each morbidly curious and terrified to study extra. Fortuitously, you’ll be able to at all times return and stream the unique on Peacock.
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