Robert Eggers has had a busy week! His film Nosferatu picked up four Oscar nominations today for cinematography, costume design, production design, and makeup and hairstyling, and yesterday news broke that his next feature for Focus Features is titled Werwulf and centers around a certain type of supernatural creature.
That’s not the only project Eggers is working on, however. Today, Deadline reported that the writer-director has signed on with TriStar Pictures to make a sequel to 1986’s Labyrinth, the perfect film starring David Bowie as Goblin King Jareth and a young Jennifer Connolly as a 16-year-old named Sarah, who heads to a fantastical realm to save her baby brother.
Eggers will be co-writing the script with his regular writing partner, Sjón, who also co-wrote the script for Werwulf and The Northman. As with Werwulf, Chris and Eleanor Columbus will produce. Lisa Henson and Brian Henson are executive producing.
This is far from the first effort to make another film in the Labyrinth universe. In 2020, Doctor Strange director Scott Derrickson was working on a sequel, with Maggie Levin writing the script. That project apparently fizzled out, and Eggers is now bringing his own sensibility to the franchise. [ed note: WHAT ARE YOU DOING ABOUT JARETH, MR. EGGERS? CAUSE IT BETTER NOT BE RECASTING HIM.]
We have no news on what Eggers’ Labyrinth sequel will tackle story-wise, other than it will definitively be a sequel rather than remake. No news either on casting or if/when the project will make its way into production.
