In this 2018 podcast interview, Smith explains that Henson gave him over 20 pages of feedback about the draft manuscript and invited him to visit the set and watch several daysвЂ™ filming. SmithвЂ™s 1986 novelisation of LabyrinthВ was written with input from Jim Henson and screenwriter Terry Jones. That means that when Sarah was dream-casting the much older lead in her personal coming-of-age fantasy, she gave that role toвЂ¦ her motherвЂ™s boyfriend.В Therapists of the world, start your engines.ДЄ.C.H. The other actor in those photos is played by David Bowie. Several of the newspaper articles in the scrapbook show her mother pictured with another actor, topped by a headline about their on-again-off-again romance. SarahвЂ™s mother Linda Williams is a theatre actor whoвЂ™s famous enough for her love life to be written about in the papers. She isnвЂ™t, as we can see from recent photos around SarahвЂ™s mirror and the scrapbook of press clippings Sarah keeps about her, decorated with hearts, the word вЂњmomвЂќ. If LabyrinthВ were a вЂrealвЂ™ fairy tale, then SarahвЂ™s absent mother (the girl lives with her father, stepmother and new stepbrother) would be dead. The film starts with her dressed as a princess and play-acting, and ends with her literally clearing her room of toys and games, and symbolically passing on her beloved teddy bear Lancelot to her little brother Toby. ItвЂ™s a coming-of-age fantasy that teaches Sarah to leave her childhood behind, recognise her inner power and step into the adult world. Using the childhood dolls, stories and ornaments spotted around her bedroom in the early scenes (Hoggle and Ludo toys, a Goblin King statue, a wooden labyrinth game, storybooks from Snow White to AliceвЂ™s Adventures in WonderlandвЂ¦), Sarah invents a scenario in which sheвЂ™s a put-upon fairy tale hero who saves her baby brother. The events of LabyrinthВ are a fantasy that takes place in SarahвЂ™s mind. Their dynamic is wrong in every size and colour, and вЂ“ depending on whether youвЂ™ve spotted the other character Bowie plays in the film вЂ“ could be about to get a little bitВ moreВ wrong. Jareth spies on Sarah, comes into her bedroom, drugs her, dances with her, and promises to be her slave if sheвЂ™ll love him, fear him and do as he says. JarethвЂ™s a 300-year-old Goblin King (played by a 38-year-old pop star) who wants to live within 15-year-old Sarah. Like BowieвЂ™s codpiece, it stares you in the face all the way through the film. ItвЂ™s not as if nobody noticed the vibe between lead characters Sarah and Jareth at the time, or in repeated viewings since. The simple fact of knowing that something is unhealthy doesnвЂ™t stop it from being fun, which is to say that itвЂ™s still okay to love Jim HensonвЂ™s 1986 cult kidsвЂ™ film LabyrinthВ while acknowledging that its sexual subtext is creepier than a drunk uncle on a camping trip. A chocolate-filled doughnut, for instance, can be delicious even while it crams our arteries with trans fat. Nobody could live up to the strange, cool, sexiness.Not everything we enjoy is good for us. Not to mention, after the tragic passing of David Bowie, the casting of a new Goblin King will be controversial no matter what. ItвЂ™s aВ 1980s coming of age fantasy film starring an actual rock star seducing a teenage girl, but also with Jim HensonвЂ™s puppets. PerlmanвЂ™s script wasВ going to be a вЂcontinuationвЂ™ of the story, and the studio now is saying itвЂ™s a new film set in the Labyrinth universe.Д«ut does anyone really want this? Labyrinth is a beloved cult classic because itвЂ™s so singularly bizarre. This isnвЂ™t AlvarezвЂ™s first time taking on an old property:В he got his start remaking the Evil Dead before moving on to reimagine Lisbeth Salander in The Girl In The SpiderвЂ™s Web. PerlmanвЂ™s script seemingly wonвЂ™t be a part ofВ this new film, and Alvarez will a write the script with writerВ Jay BasuВ ( Monsters: Dark Continent).

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