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‘Don’t Breathe’ Director Fede Alvarez Will Direct New Film in the ‘Labyrinth’ Universe
We hope it’s a horror movie about Hoggle.
With horror gems Evil Dead (that was a badass remake) and last year’s Don’t Breathe under his belt, Fede Alvarez has quickly become of my favorite genre filmmakers. As we recently told you, Alvarez is next directing an adaptation of The Girl in the Spider’s Web, but the project he’s lined up after that is even more interesting. Apparently, he’s making a new Labyrinth movie?!
Deadline reports today that TriStar has set Alvarez to direct a film “that will delve into the universe Jim Henson hatched in the 1986 cult classic.” Jay Basu will write the movie with Alvarez, and it’s expected to begin production after Alvarez is finished with The Girl in the Spider’s Web.
The site notes that Basu and Alvarez have been tasked with creating a new story within the universe created in the original movie. It will NOT be a remake, nor will it feature Jareth.
“Labyrinth is one of the seminal movies from my childhood that made me fall in love with filmmaking,” said Alvarez. “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.”
In Labyrinth, which starred David Bowie and Jennifer Connelly…
A 16-year old girl is given 13 hours to solve a labyrinth and rescue her baby brother when her wish for him to be taken away is granted by the Goblin King.
The film is a co-production between TriStar Pictures and The Jim Henson Co. Lisa Henson of The Henson Co. will produce and Nicole Brown will oversee for TriStar.
Before updating the video nasty Faces of Death, director Daniel Goldhaber and writer Isa Mazzei explored the dangers of online life in tech-thriller Cam, their feature debut that was acquired by Netflix in 2018 after making waves on the festival circuit.
At the end of last year, the Netflix exclusive quietly departed from the streaming platform, left without another streaming home.
It’s not an isolated story; Mike Flanagan’s Hush also left streaming entirely for a period until it was finally picked up on both physical media and other streaming services.
While the tech-thriller currently isn’t available to watch on Netflix, Tubi, Hulu, or any other platforms, that’s not a problem for Cam thanks to a very cool move by Goldhaber: the director has made his breakout film accessible to watch online for free via his website.
As his site notes: “CAM is unfortunately not currently available to view on any platforms, so you can watch it here if you like :).“
No subscriptions or fees necessary, just hit play.
Cam follows Alice (Madeline Brewer), who works as an online cam girl obsessed with her ranking on the cam site. The higher her ranking goes, the more it draws unwanted attention, and Alice soon finds herself replaced on her own show with a doppelganger.
Written by Mazzei, a former camgirl, it uses the horror thriller premise to examine the life of a sex worker; Alice’s career ambition is directly at odds with the shame it brings to her family, and how she tries to spare them from it by keeping them in the dark. It only compounds her danger when the doppelganger enters the equation in Goldhaber’s engaging thriller.
For a deep dive into the treacherous world of Cam, listen to Horror Queers’ episode on it now.
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