He is conquered the realms of witches (The Witch), vampires (Nosferatu), and really quickly may have taken a thirteenth century set stab at werewolves too (Werwulf), however rising grasp of the macabre Robert Eggers has already determined the place his watchful eye shall be solid subsequent — and we’ll guess it is not someplace you had in your Eggers bingo card. Scorching on the heels of scoring 4 Oscar nominations for his tackle F.W. Murnau’s Gothic chiller Nosferatu, Deadline is reporting that Eggers has closed a deal to write down and direct a sequel to Jim Henson’s 1986 darkish fantasy Labyrinth at TriStar.
Based on Deadline, the movie — which is explicitly acknowledged to be a sequel to relatively than a remake of the cult Jennifer Connelly and David Bowie starring basic — is being penned by Eggers alongside Icelandic poet Sjón, his co-writer on each The Northman and the upcoming Werwulf. As you’d think about, plot particulars for the follow-up to Henson’s story a couple of teenage woman’s magical quest to save lots of her child brother from Jareth, The Goblin King, are being stored hush-hush for now. With each a Fede Alvarez spin-off film and a Scott Derrickson helmed sequel having fallen by the wayside lately, it will be very fascinating nonetheless to see during which course Eggers decides to take Sarah and Jareth’s story — and simply how closely he’ll lean into the latent darkness of the unique movie.
Whereas an Eggers Labyrinth film could seem a bit of out of left discipline for the at the moment four-for-four auteur on the face of it, there’s additionally a sure type of sense to the concept too. Here is a director who’s confirmed he can work on a big scale, with a big finances, coping with each the supernatural and the occult in a manner that marries nightmare gas imagery with the type of darkly humorous underpinning that chimes with Henson’s authentic ’86 movie. Plus, what are Depend Orlok and Jareth if not two supernaturally manifested, psychosexually charged rizz masters destined to hang-out your goals — and nightmares — forevermore?
We’ll deliver you extra on Eggers’ Labyrinth simply as quickly as we get it, although with no launch date pencilled in or manufacturing schedule launched at this level, it is a fairly secure guess that we’ll be getting the Christmas 2026 slated Werwulf earlier than we meet up with the Goblin King and co. Within the meantime then, we’re off to order a wig and a few tights so we are able to prepare to enroll in Eggers’ rigorous Magic Dance bootcamp (which, one can solely presume, will happen in a function constructed precise labyrinth.) Dance, Magic Dance!
