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Jim Henson’s Labyrinth is get­ting a sequel

14 Apr 2017

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A person with long, wild blonde hair wearing an elaborate costume, gesturing with their hand.
A person with long, wild blonde hair wearing an elaborate costume, gesturing with their hand.
But David Bowie’s Gob­lin King won’t be return­ing in the new version.

Pre­pare to say good­bye to your child­hood, because a new ver­sion of Jim Henson’s clas­sic fam­i­ly fan­ta­sy is in the works cour­tesy of Don’t Breathe direc­tor Fede Alvarez.

Nei­ther a remake nor a reboot, it will report­ed­ly be a spir­i­tu­al sequel that takes place some­time after the events of the 1986 film, in which head­strong teen Sarah (played by Jen­nifer Con­nel­ly in one of her first roles) enters the mys­te­ri­ous and mag­i­cal realm of the Gob­lin King (David Bowie) in search of her kid­napped baby brother.

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Labyrinth was Henson’s last film as direc­tor, and it remains one of his most beloved cre­ations. Its instant­ly recog­nis­able cast of colour­ful pup­pet char­ac­ters, cou­pled with the now icon­ic Mag­ic Dance sequence, have endeared it to gen­er­a­tions of movie fans.

Suf­fice to say we’re skep­ti­cal as to whether Alvarez will be able to recap­ture the charm of the orig­i­nal. Hope­ful­ly he will at least opt for prac­ti­cal effects over CGI creatures.

Lisa Hen­son of The Jim Hen­son Com­pa­ny is in line to pro­duce, which can only be a good thing. And it’s also been con­firmed that the Gob­lin King will not feature.

Alvarez is cur­rent­ly work­ing on The Girl in the Spider’s Web, the fol­low-up to David Fincher’s The Girl with the Drag­on Tat­too, which at the time of writ­ing is still look­ing for a female lead to replace Rooney Mara.

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