Prepare to stuff your crotch bulge because a sequel to Jim Henson’s 1986 cult classic Labyrinth is in the works.
The sequel is set to be directed by Scott Derrickson, who recently passed on directing the forthcoming sequel to his 2016 Marvel monolith, Doctor Strange. Henson’s Daughter Lisa will produce the film, with Henson’s son Brian acting as executive producer. The script is set to be helmed by Maggie Levin — who recently wrote and direct Hulu film Into the Dark: My Valentine.
Details about the film have been kept under wraps, so we’re not sure if this new psychotropic sequel will follow Jennifer Connelly’s character Sarah as an adult, or whether completely new characters will be brought into the mix.
Back in 2018, director Fede Alvarez —who was tapped to direct the project at the time— confirmed that the sequel would be a direct continuation from the first film, set many years later.
“I was actually having lunch yesterday with [producer] Lisa Henson and we reconnected with that project,” said Alvarez. “We’re very excited about it. It is basically a direct continuation of the first movie many years later, and I can’t tell you much more about it… but we have a script, and we’re very excited about it so we’ll see where that goes.”
We just hope that the powers of voodoo are not lost in this post-puppet world, and we’re not forced to endure a cold, soulless, CGI epic. The Marvel aesthetic we’ve been tube-fed over this past decade has truly gnawed away at my will to live. I crave a Labyrinth sequel brimming with camp as hell puppets. Anything else would be sacrilege.
Labyrinth was originally released in 1986. The Jim Henson, and George Lucas fever dream starred Jennifer Connelly as Sarah, a precocious teenager who must enter into the weird and wacky labyrinthian world in order to rescue her infant brother from Jareth the Goblin King — played by David Bowie and his chaotically horny codpiece.
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“I loved the magic, the mystery,” Bowie told Bravo of the role in 1987. “Jim Henson, George Lucas and I knew from the beginning I would play Jareth.”
Check out ‘Magic Dance’ from Labyrinth :
