The unique Labyrinth was a kind of motion pictures that was such a exact product of its time, place, and the inventive collision of the individuals engaged on it that it’s onerous 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 reviews 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 forged 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 children, Lisa and Brian. There’s reportedly a accomplished script as properly, 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, turned his high grossing film ever, scoring over $150 million on the field workplace. It won’t sound like so much in comparison with different trendy blockbusters, nevertheless it’s an enormous industrial hit relative to the remainder of the director’s extra area of interest style releases (all wonderful), together with The Witch, The Lighthouse, and The Northman. Nosferatu additionally acquired a number of Oscar nominations immediately, and Eggers has already locked down his subsequent horror challenge, titled Werwulf.
All of which is to say it’s onerous to think about Eggers making a nasty film, nevertheless it’s additionally onerous to think about what a very good sequel to Labyrinth would appear to be roughly 40 years later, when among the distinctive skills integral to the unique’s unimaginable 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 referred to as Ludo, and a knight named Sir Didymus who is known as a canine whose horse can 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 be taught extra. Happily, you possibly can all the time return and stream the unique on Peacock.
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