“I just felt…when people have a preconceived notion of what something should be, it’s very hard to succeed - to surprise them. Labyrinth was something I was going to do at some point, but then I stepped down,” Alvarez told Bloody Disgusting’s Boo Crew Podcast. And what’s worth the attention of the audience. “It’s so hard to decide what’s worth your time. He officially stepped down in April of 2020.
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“It is basically a direct continuation of the first movie many years later, and I can't tell you much more about it,” Alvarez said in October 2018, after ANOTHER year and change had passed, “but we have a script, and we're very excited about it so we'll see where that goes.”Īlas, that long-developing, slow-burn process didn’t result in the in-demand Alvarez staying with the project. The planned musical kind of disappeared, but Alvarez's version of the sequel as far as having a completed draft of the screenplay. Those are the two areas of excitement for the Labyrinth property that we have." Jim's son, Brian Henson said that alongside the sequel, "We are working on a theatrical adaptation of the original movie for the stage. In fact, around this time, there were even talks of making a Labyrinth musical, which was just one of the various new media formats the franchise was exploring. His plans were to apparently return to the titular maze, filled with puppets and pubescent metaphor, as a continuation to the first film. "I couldn’t be more thrilled to expand on Jim Henson’s mesmerizing universe, and take a new generation of moviegoers back into the Labyrinth.” “Labyrinth is one of the seminal movies from my childhood that made me fall in love with filmmaking," said Alvarez at the time. Alvarez’s collaborator, writer Jay Basu (the pair worked together on The Girl in the Spider's Web), also boarded the project. More than a year later, in April 2017, and that development/writing process resulted in the attachment of director Fede Alvarez ( Don't Breathe). The news sadly broke about 10 days after star David Bowie’s death in January of 2016, so the excitement was overshadowed by the mourning of fans everywhere. I would never seek to profit from Bowie's death.- Nicole Perlman January 23, 2016 Henson Co & I started talking in late 2014, so the timing of these rumors is so upsetting. That’s when screenwriter Nicole Perlman ( Guardians of the Galaxy, Captain Marvel) started talking about work on a sequel - NOT a reboot: So it’s no wonder TriStar and The Jim Henson Company didn’t publicly get anything in motion for a sequel until 2014. The original 1986 film was very much secluded to a loyal but small cult upon release, recouping only about half its budget. With today's news that director Scott Derrickson ( Doctor Strange) and writer Maggie Levin ( Into the Dark’s “My Valentine”) will be making a Labyrinth sequel for TriStar Pictures, fans of Jim Henson’s original have to be more excited than David Bowie’s Goblin King doing the "Magic Dance." But the road to the greenlight has been long and arduous for the project, so we at SYFY WIRE will attempt to play Hoggle and guide you through the labyrinthine journey to a Labyrinth sequel.įirst off, just be thankful there aren’t two versions of this article - one that only lies and one that only tells the truth - because even in the back-and-forth of Hollywood development, the Labyrinth sequel’s path isn’t too hard to follow if you stick to the facts.
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