Writer/director Fede Alvarez made Sony a lot of money last year with his low budget horror hit, Don’t Breathe. They’ve been hot on the man ever since and are looking to keep him around. Their latest project for him? A re-imagining of Jim Henson’s Labyrinth. According to , this project will not be a remake, but instead a new story set within the same world as the 1986 original. The Goblin King will apparently have no part to play in the story they’ve cooked up, so there are no worries of recasting David Bowie either.
Alvarez will co-write an outline for the film with Jay Basu. The latter penning the eventual screenplay. It will be a co-production between Sony subsidiary TriStar Pictures and The Jim Henson Co., with Nicole Brown producing for the former and Lisa Henson for the latter. Alvarez on Labyrinth…
“Labyrinth is one of the seminal movies from my childhood that made me fall in love with filmmaking. 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.”
The filmmaker is currently prepping The Girl in the Spider’s Web, a follow-up to 2011’s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. Alvarez will shoot that film this fall, with work not fully beginning on Labyrinth until after Girl is completed. It sounds like the Henson fantasy adventure will be his immediate project after Girl. What this does to the still-in-development Don’t Breathe 2 is unclear at this time. I’m guessing Fede will merely end up producing (and maybe co-writing) it, instead of directing. It seems that higher profile follow-ups to the films of others interest him more at the moment. I can’t say that I blame him.
